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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-FORMAT_MODULE_PATH |
GDAL API GDAL stands for Geospatial Data Abstraction Library, and is a veritable “Swiss army knife” of GIS data functionality. A subset of GDAL is the OGR Simple Features Library, which specializes in reading and writing vector geographic data in a variety of standard formats. GeoDjango provides a high-level Python interface for some of the capabilities of OGR, including the reading and coordinate transformation of vector spatial data and minimal support for GDAL’s features with respect to raster (image) data. Note Although the module is named gdal, GeoDjango only supports some of the capabilities of OGR and GDAL’s raster features at this time. Overview Sample Data The GDAL/OGR tools described here are designed to help you read in your geospatial data, in order for most of them to be useful you have to have some data to work with. If you’re starting out and don’t yet have any data of your own to use, GeoDjango tests contain a number of data sets that you can use for testing. You can download them here: $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/django/django/main/tests/gis_tests/data/cities/cities.{shp,prj,shx,dbf}
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/django/django/main/tests/gis_tests/data/rasters/raster.tif
Vector Data Source Objects DataSource DataSource is a wrapper for the OGR data source object that supports reading data from a variety of OGR-supported geospatial file formats and data sources using a consistent interface. Each data source is represented by a DataSource object which contains one or more layers of data. Each layer, represented by a Layer object, contains some number of geographic features (Feature), information about the type of features contained in that layer (e.g. points, polygons, etc.), as well as the names and types of any additional fields (Field) of data that may be associated with each feature in that layer.
class DataSource(ds_input, encoding='utf-8')
The constructor for DataSource only requires one parameter: the path of the file you want to read. However, OGR also supports a variety of more complex data sources, including databases, that may be accessed by passing a special name string instead of a path. For more information, see the OGR Vector Formats documentation. The name property of a DataSource instance gives the OGR name of the underlying data source that it is using. The optional encoding parameter allows you to specify a non-standard encoding of the strings in the source. This is typically useful when you obtain DjangoUnicodeDecodeError exceptions while reading field values. Once you’ve created your DataSource, you can find out how many layers of data it contains by accessing the layer_count property, or (equivalently) by using the len() function. For information on accessing the layers of data themselves, see the next section: >>> from django.contrib.gis.gdal import DataSource
>>> ds = DataSource('/path/to/your/cities.shp')
>>> ds.name
'/path/to/your/cities.shp'
>>> ds.layer_count # This file only contains one layer
1
layer_count
Returns the number of layers in the data source.
name
Returns the name of the data source. Changed in Django 3.2: Support for pathlib.Path ds_input was added.
Layer
class Layer
Layer is a wrapper for a layer of data in a DataSource object. You never create a Layer object directly. Instead, you retrieve them from a DataSource object, which is essentially a standard Python container of Layer objects. For example, you can access a specific layer by its index (e.g. ds[0] to access the first layer), or you can iterate over all the layers in the container in a for loop. The Layer itself acts as a container for geometric features. Typically, all the features in a given layer have the same geometry type. The geom_type property of a layer is an OGRGeomType that identifies the feature type. We can use it to print out some basic information about each layer in a DataSource: >>> for layer in ds:
... print('Layer "%s": %i %ss' % (layer.name, len(layer), layer.geom_type.name))
...
Layer "cities": 3 Points
The example output is from the cities data source, loaded above, which evidently contains one layer, called "cities", which contains three point features. For simplicity, the examples below assume that you’ve stored that layer in the variable layer: >>> layer = ds[0]
name
Returns the name of this layer in the data source. >>> layer.name
'cities'
num_feat
Returns the number of features in the layer. Same as len(layer): >>> layer.num_feat
3
geom_type
Returns the geometry type of the layer, as an OGRGeomType object: >>> layer.geom_type.name
'Point'
num_fields
Returns the number of fields in the layer, i.e the number of fields of data associated with each feature in the layer: >>> layer.num_fields
4
fields
Returns a list of the names of each of the fields in this layer: >>> layer.fields
['Name', 'Population', 'Density', 'Created']
Returns a list of the data types of each of the fields in this layer. These are subclasses of Field, discussed below: >>> [ft.__name__ for ft in layer.field_types]
['OFTString', 'OFTReal', 'OFTReal', 'OFTDate']
field_widths
Returns a list of the maximum field widths for each of the fields in this layer: >>> layer.field_widths
[80, 11, 24, 10]
field_precisions
Returns a list of the numeric precisions for each of the fields in this layer. This is meaningless (and set to zero) for non-numeric fields: >>> layer.field_precisions
[0, 0, 15, 0]
extent
Returns the spatial extent of this layer, as an Envelope object: >>> layer.extent.tuple
(-104.609252, 29.763374, -95.23506, 38.971823)
srs
Property that returns the SpatialReference associated with this layer: >>> print(layer.srs)
GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",
DATUM["WGS_1984",
SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]
If the Layer has no spatial reference information associated with it, None is returned.
spatial_filter
Property that may be used to retrieve or set a spatial filter for this layer. A spatial filter can only be set with an OGRGeometry instance, a 4-tuple extent, or None. When set with something other than None, only features that intersect the filter will be returned when iterating over the layer: >>> print(layer.spatial_filter)
None
>>> print(len(layer))
3
>>> [feat.get('Name') for feat in layer]
['Pueblo', 'Lawrence', 'Houston']
>>> ks_extent = (-102.051, 36.99, -94.59, 40.00) # Extent for state of Kansas
>>> layer.spatial_filter = ks_extent
>>> len(layer)
1
>>> [feat.get('Name') for feat in layer]
['Lawrence']
>>> layer.spatial_filter = None
>>> len(layer)
3
get_fields()
A method that returns a list of the values of a given field for each feature in the layer: >>> layer.get_fields('Name')
['Pueblo', 'Lawrence', 'Houston']
get_geoms(geos=False)
A method that returns a list containing the geometry of each feature in the layer. If the optional argument geos is set to True then the geometries are converted to GEOSGeometry objects. Otherwise, they are returned as OGRGeometry objects: >>> [pt.tuple for pt in layer.get_geoms()]
[(-104.609252, 38.255001), (-95.23506, 38.971823), (-95.363151, 29.763374)]
test_capability(capability)
Returns a boolean indicating whether this layer supports the given capability (a string). Examples of valid capability strings include: 'RandomRead', 'SequentialWrite', 'RandomWrite', 'FastSpatialFilter', 'FastFeatureCount', 'FastGetExtent', 'CreateField', 'Transactions', 'DeleteFeature', and 'FastSetNextByIndex'.
Feature
class Feature
Feature wraps an OGR feature. You never create a Feature object directly. Instead, you retrieve them from a Layer object. Each feature consists of a geometry and a set of fields containing additional properties. The geometry of a field is accessible via its geom property, which returns an OGRGeometry object. A Feature behaves like a standard Python container for its fields, which it returns as Field objects: you can access a field directly by its index or name, or you can iterate over a feature’s fields, e.g. in a for loop.
geom
Returns the geometry for this feature, as an OGRGeometry object: >>> city.geom.tuple
(-104.609252, 38.255001)
get
A method that returns the value of the given field (specified by name) for this feature, not a Field wrapper object: >>> city.get('Population')
102121
geom_type
Returns the type of geometry for this feature, as an OGRGeomType object. This will be the same for all features in a given layer and is equivalent to the Layer.geom_type property of the Layer object the feature came from.
num_fields
Returns the number of fields of data associated with the feature. This will be the same for all features in a given layer and is equivalent to the Layer.num_fields property of the Layer object the feature came from.
fields
Returns a list of the names of the fields of data associated with the feature. This will be the same for all features in a given layer and is equivalent to the Layer.fields property of the Layer object the feature came from.
fid
Returns the feature identifier within the layer: >>> city.fid
0
layer_name
Returns the name of the Layer that the feature came from. This will be the same for all features in a given layer: >>> city.layer_name
'cities'
index
A method that returns the index of the given field name. This will be the same for all features in a given layer: >>> city.index('Population')
1
Field
class Field
name
Returns the name of this field: >>> city['Name'].name
'Name'
type
Returns the OGR type of this field, as an integer. The FIELD_CLASSES dictionary maps these values onto subclasses of Field: >>> city['Density'].type
2
type_name
Returns a string with the name of the data type of this field: >>> city['Name'].type_name
'String'
value
Returns the value of this field. The Field class itself returns the value as a string, but each subclass returns the value in the most appropriate form: >>> city['Population'].value
102121
width
Returns the width of this field: >>> city['Name'].width
80
precision
Returns the numeric precision of this field. This is meaningless (and set to zero) for non-numeric fields: >>> city['Density'].precision
15
as_double()
Returns the value of the field as a double (float): >>> city['Density'].as_double()
874.7
as_int()
Returns the value of the field as an integer: >>> city['Population'].as_int()
102121
as_string()
Returns the value of the field as a string: >>> city['Name'].as_string()
'Pueblo'
as_datetime()
Returns the value of the field as a tuple of date and time components: >>> city['Created'].as_datetime()
(c_long(1999), c_long(5), c_long(23), c_long(0), c_long(0), c_long(0), c_long(0))
Driver
class Driver(dr_input)
The Driver class is used internally to wrap an OGR DataSource driver.
driver_count
Returns the number of OGR vector drivers currently registered.
OGR Geometries OGRGeometry OGRGeometry objects share similar functionality with GEOSGeometry objects and are thin wrappers around OGR’s internal geometry representation. Thus, they allow for more efficient access to data when using DataSource. Unlike its GEOS counterpart, OGRGeometry supports spatial reference systems and coordinate transformation: >>> from django.contrib.gis.gdal import OGRGeometry
>>> polygon = OGRGeometry('POLYGON((0 0, 5 0, 5 5, 0 5))')
class OGRGeometry(geom_input, srs=None)
This object is a wrapper for the OGR Geometry class. These objects are instantiated directly from the given geom_input parameter, which may be a string containing WKT, HEX, GeoJSON, a buffer containing WKB data, or an OGRGeomType object. These objects are also returned from the Feature.geom attribute, when reading vector data from Layer (which is in turn a part of a DataSource).
classmethod from_gml(gml_string)
Constructs an OGRGeometry from the given GML string.
classmethod from_bbox(bbox)
Constructs a Polygon from the given bounding-box (a 4-tuple).
__len__()
Returns the number of points in a LineString, the number of rings in a Polygon, or the number of geometries in a GeometryCollection. Not applicable to other geometry types.
__iter__()
Iterates over the points in a LineString, the rings in a Polygon, or the geometries in a GeometryCollection. Not applicable to other geometry types.
__getitem__()
Returns the point at the specified index for a LineString, the interior ring at the specified index for a Polygon, or the geometry at the specified index in a GeometryCollection. Not applicable to other geometry types.
dimension
Returns the number of coordinated dimensions of the geometry, i.e. 0 for points, 1 for lines, and so forth: >> polygon.dimension
2
coord_dim
Returns or sets the coordinate dimension of this geometry. For example, the value would be 2 for two-dimensional geometries.
geom_count
Returns the number of elements in this geometry: >>> polygon.geom_count
1
point_count
Returns the number of points used to describe this geometry: >>> polygon.point_count
4
num_points
Alias for point_count.
num_coords
Alias for point_count.
geom_type
Returns the type of this geometry, as an OGRGeomType object.
geom_name
Returns the name of the type of this geometry: >>> polygon.geom_name
'POLYGON'
area
Returns the area of this geometry, or 0 for geometries that do not contain an area: >>> polygon.area
25.0
envelope
Returns the envelope of this geometry, as an Envelope object.
extent
Returns the envelope of this geometry as a 4-tuple, instead of as an Envelope object: >>> point.extent
(0.0, 0.0, 5.0, 5.0)
srs
This property controls the spatial reference for this geometry, or None if no spatial reference system has been assigned to it. If assigned, accessing this property returns a SpatialReference object. It may be set with another SpatialReference object, or any input that SpatialReference accepts. Example: >>> city.geom.srs.name
'GCS_WGS_1984'
srid
Returns or sets the spatial reference identifier corresponding to SpatialReference of this geometry. Returns None if there is no spatial reference information associated with this geometry, or if an SRID cannot be determined.
geos
Returns a GEOSGeometry object corresponding to this geometry.
gml
Returns a string representation of this geometry in GML format: >>> OGRGeometry('POINT(1 2)').gml
'<gml:Point><gml:coordinates>1,2</gml:coordinates></gml:Point>'
hex
Returns a string representation of this geometry in HEX WKB format: >>> OGRGeometry('POINT(1 2)').hex
'0101000000000000000000F03F0000000000000040'
json
Returns a string representation of this geometry in JSON format: >>> OGRGeometry('POINT(1 2)').json
'{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 1.000000, 2.000000 ] }'
kml
Returns a string representation of this geometry in KML format.
wkb_size
Returns the size of the WKB buffer needed to hold a WKB representation of this geometry: >>> OGRGeometry('POINT(1 2)').wkb_size
21
wkb
Returns a buffer containing a WKB representation of this geometry.
wkt
Returns a string representation of this geometry in WKT format.
ewkt
Returns the EWKT representation of this geometry.
clone()
Returns a new OGRGeometry clone of this geometry object.
close_rings()
If there are any rings within this geometry that have not been closed, this routine will do so by adding the starting point to the end: >>> triangle = OGRGeometry('LINEARRING (0 0,0 1,1 0)')
>>> triangle.close_rings()
>>> triangle.wkt
'LINEARRING (0 0,0 1,1 0,0 0)'
transform(coord_trans, clone=False)
Transforms this geometry to a different spatial reference system. May take a CoordTransform object, a SpatialReference object, or any other input accepted by SpatialReference (including spatial reference WKT and PROJ strings, or an integer SRID). By default nothing is returned and the geometry is transformed in-place. However, if the clone keyword is set to True then a transformed clone of this geometry is returned instead.
intersects(other)
Returns True if this geometry intersects the other, otherwise returns False.
equals(other)
Returns True if this geometry is equivalent to the other, otherwise returns False.
disjoint(other)
Returns True if this geometry is spatially disjoint to (i.e. does not intersect) the other, otherwise returns False.
touches(other)
Returns True if this geometry touches the other, otherwise returns False.
crosses(other)
Returns True if this geometry crosses the other, otherwise returns False.
within(other)
Returns True if this geometry is contained within the other, otherwise returns False.
contains(other)
Returns True if this geometry contains the other, otherwise returns False.
overlaps(other)
Returns True if this geometry overlaps the other, otherwise returns False.
boundary()
The boundary of this geometry, as a new OGRGeometry object.
convex_hull
The smallest convex polygon that contains this geometry, as a new OGRGeometry object.
difference()
Returns the region consisting of the difference of this geometry and the other, as a new OGRGeometry object.
intersection()
Returns the region consisting of the intersection of this geometry and the other, as a new OGRGeometry object.
sym_difference()
Returns the region consisting of the symmetric difference of this geometry and the other, as a new OGRGeometry object.
union()
Returns the region consisting of the union of this geometry and the other, as a new OGRGeometry object.
tuple
Returns the coordinates of a point geometry as a tuple, the coordinates of a line geometry as a tuple of tuples, and so forth: >>> OGRGeometry('POINT (1 2)').tuple
(1.0, 2.0)
>>> OGRGeometry('LINESTRING (1 2,3 4)').tuple
((1.0, 2.0), (3.0, 4.0))
coords
An alias for tuple.
class Point
x
Returns the X coordinate of this point: >>> OGRGeometry('POINT (1 2)').x
1.0
y
Returns the Y coordinate of this point: >>> OGRGeometry('POINT (1 2)').y
2.0
z
Returns the Z coordinate of this point, or None if the point does not have a Z coordinate: >>> OGRGeometry('POINT (1 2 3)').z
3.0
class LineString
x
Returns a list of X coordinates in this line: >>> OGRGeometry('LINESTRING (1 2,3 4)').x
[1.0, 3.0]
y
Returns a list of Y coordinates in this line: >>> OGRGeometry('LINESTRING (1 2,3 4)').y
[2.0, 4.0]
z
Returns a list of Z coordinates in this line, or None if the line does not have Z coordinates: >>> OGRGeometry('LINESTRING (1 2 3,4 5 6)').z
[3.0, 6.0]
class Polygon
shell
Returns the shell or exterior ring of this polygon, as a LinearRing geometry.
exterior_ring
An alias for shell.
centroid
Returns a Point representing the centroid of this polygon.
class GeometryCollection
add(geom)
Adds a geometry to this geometry collection. Not applicable to other geometry types.
OGRGeomType
class OGRGeomType(type_input)
This class allows for the representation of an OGR geometry type in any of several ways: >>> from django.contrib.gis.gdal import OGRGeomType
>>> gt1 = OGRGeomType(3) # Using an integer for the type
>>> gt2 = OGRGeomType('Polygon') # Using a string
>>> gt3 = OGRGeomType('POLYGON') # It's case-insensitive
>>> print(gt1 == 3, gt1 == 'Polygon') # Equivalence works w/non-OGRGeomType objects
True True
name
Returns a short-hand string form of the OGR Geometry type: >>> gt1.name
'Polygon'
num
Returns the number corresponding to the OGR geometry type: >>> gt1.num
3
django
Returns the Django field type (a subclass of GeometryField) to use for storing this OGR type, or None if there is no appropriate Django type: >>> gt1.django
'PolygonField'
Envelope
class Envelope(*args)
Represents an OGR Envelope structure that contains the minimum and maximum X, Y coordinates for a rectangle bounding box. The naming of the variables is compatible with the OGR Envelope C structure.
min_x
The value of the minimum X coordinate.
min_y
The value of the maximum X coordinate.
max_x
The value of the minimum Y coordinate.
max_y
The value of the maximum Y coordinate.
ur
The upper-right coordinate, as a tuple.
ll
The lower-left coordinate, as a tuple.
tuple
A tuple representing the envelope.
wkt
A string representing this envelope as a polygon in WKT format.
expand_to_include(*args)
Coordinate System Objects SpatialReference
class SpatialReference(srs_input)
Spatial reference objects are initialized on the given srs_input, which may be one of the following: OGC Well Known Text (WKT) (a string) EPSG code (integer or string) PROJ string A shorthand string for well-known standards ('WGS84', 'WGS72', 'NAD27', 'NAD83') Example: >>> wgs84 = SpatialReference('WGS84') # shorthand string
>>> wgs84 = SpatialReference(4326) # EPSG code
>>> wgs84 = SpatialReference('EPSG:4326') # EPSG string
>>> proj = '+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs '
>>> wgs84 = SpatialReference(proj) # PROJ string
>>> wgs84 = SpatialReference("""GEOGCS["WGS 84",
DATUM["WGS_1984",
SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],
AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],
UNIT["degree",0.01745329251994328,
AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],
AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]]""") # OGC WKT
__getitem__(target)
Returns the value of the given string attribute node, None if the node doesn’t exist. Can also take a tuple as a parameter, (target, child), where child is the index of the attribute in the WKT. For example: >>> wkt = 'GEOGCS["WGS 84", DATUM["WGS_1984, ... AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]]')
>>> srs = SpatialReference(wkt) # could also use 'WGS84', or 4326
>>> print(srs['GEOGCS'])
WGS 84
>>> print(srs['DATUM'])
WGS_1984
>>> print(srs['AUTHORITY'])
EPSG
>>> print(srs['AUTHORITY', 1]) # The authority value
4326
>>> print(srs['TOWGS84', 4]) # the fourth value in this wkt
0
>>> print(srs['UNIT|AUTHORITY']) # For the units authority, have to use the pipe symbol.
EPSG
>>> print(srs['UNIT|AUTHORITY', 1]) # The authority value for the units
9122
attr_value(target, index=0)
The attribute value for the given target node (e.g. 'PROJCS'). The index keyword specifies an index of the child node to return.
auth_name(target)
Returns the authority name for the given string target node.
auth_code(target)
Returns the authority code for the given string target node.
clone()
Returns a clone of this spatial reference object.
identify_epsg()
This method inspects the WKT of this SpatialReference and will add EPSG authority nodes where an EPSG identifier is applicable.
from_esri()
Morphs this SpatialReference from ESRI’s format to EPSG
to_esri()
Morphs this SpatialReference to ESRI’s format.
validate()
Checks to see if the given spatial reference is valid, if not an exception will be raised.
import_epsg(epsg)
Import spatial reference from EPSG code.
import_proj(proj)
Import spatial reference from PROJ string.
import_user_input(user_input)
import_wkt(wkt)
Import spatial reference from WKT.
import_xml(xml)
Import spatial reference from XML.
name
Returns the name of this Spatial Reference.
srid
Returns the SRID of top-level authority, or None if undefined.
linear_name
Returns the name of the linear units.
linear_units
Returns the value of the linear units.
angular_name
Returns the name of the angular units.”
angular_units
Returns the value of the angular units.
units
Returns a 2-tuple of the units value and the units name and will automatically determines whether to return the linear or angular units.
ellipsoid
Returns a tuple of the ellipsoid parameters for this spatial reference: (semimajor axis, semiminor axis, and inverse flattening).
semi_major
Returns the semi major axis of the ellipsoid for this spatial reference.
semi_minor
Returns the semi minor axis of the ellipsoid for this spatial reference.
inverse_flattening
Returns the inverse flattening of the ellipsoid for this spatial reference.
geographic
Returns True if this spatial reference is geographic (root node is GEOGCS).
local
Returns True if this spatial reference is local (root node is LOCAL_CS).
projected
Returns True if this spatial reference is a projected coordinate system (root node is PROJCS).
wkt
Returns the WKT representation of this spatial reference.
pretty_wkt
Returns the ‘pretty’ representation of the WKT.
proj
Returns the PROJ representation for this spatial reference.
proj4
Alias for SpatialReference.proj.
xml
Returns the XML representation of this spatial reference.
CoordTransform
class CoordTransform(source, target)
Represents a coordinate system transform. It is initialized with two SpatialReference, representing the source and target coordinate systems, respectively. These objects should be used when performing the same coordinate transformation repeatedly on different geometries: >>> ct = CoordTransform(SpatialReference('WGS84'), SpatialReference('NAD83'))
>>> for feat in layer:
... geom = feat.geom # getting clone of feature geometry
... geom.transform(ct) # transforming
Raster Data Objects GDALRaster GDALRaster is a wrapper for the GDAL raster source object that supports reading data from a variety of GDAL-supported geospatial file formats and data sources using a consistent interface. Each data source is represented by a GDALRaster object which contains one or more layers of data named bands. Each band, represented by a GDALBand object, contains georeferenced image data. For example, an RGB image is represented as three bands: one for red, one for green, and one for blue. Note For raster data there is no difference between a raster instance and its data source. Unlike for the Geometry objects, GDALRaster objects are always a data source. Temporary rasters can be instantiated in memory using the corresponding driver, but they will be of the same class as file-based raster sources.
class GDALRaster(ds_input, write=False)
The constructor for GDALRaster accepts two parameters. The first parameter defines the raster source, and the second parameter defines if a raster should be opened in write mode. For newly-created rasters, the second parameter is ignored and the new raster is always created in write mode. The first parameter can take three forms: a string representing a file path (filesystem or GDAL virtual filesystem), a dictionary with values defining a new raster, or a bytes object representing a raster file. If the input is a file path, the raster is opened from there. If the input is raw data in a dictionary, the parameters width, height, and srid are required. If the input is a bytes object, it will be opened using a GDAL virtual filesystem. For a detailed description of how to create rasters using dictionary input, see Creating rasters from data. For a detailed description of how to create rasters in the virtual filesystem, see Using GDAL’s Virtual Filesystem. The following example shows how rasters can be created from different input sources (using the sample data from the GeoDjango tests; see also the Sample Data section). >>> from django.contrib.gis.gdal import GDALRaster
>>> rst = GDALRaster('/path/to/your/raster.tif', write=False)
>>> rst.name
'/path/to/your/raster.tif'
>>> rst.width, rst.height # This file has 163 x 174 pixels
(163, 174)
>>> rst = GDALRaster({ # Creates an in-memory raster
... 'srid': 4326,
... 'width': 4,
... 'height': 4,
... 'datatype': 1,
... 'bands': [{
... 'data': (2, 3),
... 'offset': (1, 1),
... 'size': (2, 2),
... 'shape': (2, 1),
... 'nodata_value': 5,
... }]
... })
>>> rst.srs.srid
4326
>>> rst.width, rst.height
(4, 4)
>>> rst.bands[0].data()
array([[5, 5, 5, 5],
[5, 2, 3, 5],
[5, 2, 3, 5],
[5, 5, 5, 5]], dtype=uint8)
>>> rst_file = open('/path/to/your/raster.tif', 'rb')
>>> rst_bytes = rst_file.read()
>>> rst = GDALRaster(rst_bytes)
>>> rst.is_vsi_based
True
>>> rst.name # Stored in a random path in the vsimem filesystem.
'/vsimem/da300bdb-129d-49a8-b336-e410a9428dad'
Changed in Django 4.0: Creating rasters in any GDAL virtual filesystem was allowed.
name
The name of the source which is equivalent to the input file path or the name provided upon instantiation. >>> GDALRaster({'width': 10, 'height': 10, 'name': 'myraster', 'srid': 4326}).name
'myraster'
driver
The name of the GDAL driver used to handle the input file. For GDALRasters created from a file, the driver type is detected automatically. The creation of rasters from scratch is an in-memory raster by default ('MEM'), but can be altered as needed. For instance, use GTiff for a GeoTiff file. For a list of file types, see also the GDAL Raster Formats list. An in-memory raster is created through the following example: >>> GDALRaster({'width': 10, 'height': 10, 'srid': 4326}).driver.name
'MEM'
A file based GeoTiff raster is created through the following example: >>> import tempfile
>>> rstfile = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix='.tif')
>>> rst = GDALRaster({'driver': 'GTiff', 'name': rstfile.name, 'srid': 4326,
... 'width': 255, 'height': 255, 'nr_of_bands': 1})
>>> rst.name
'/tmp/tmp7x9H4J.tif' # The exact filename will be different on your computer
>>> rst.driver.name
'GTiff'
width
The width of the source in pixels (X-axis). >>> GDALRaster({'width': 10, 'height': 20, 'srid': 4326}).width
10
height
The height of the source in pixels (Y-axis). >>> GDALRaster({'width': 10, 'height': 20, 'srid': 4326}).height
20
srs
The spatial reference system of the raster, as a SpatialReference instance. The SRS can be changed by setting it to an other SpatialReference or providing any input that is accepted by the SpatialReference constructor. >>> rst = GDALRaster({'width': 10, 'height': 20, 'srid': 4326})
>>> rst.srs.srid
4326
>>> rst.srs = 3086
>>> rst.srs.srid
3086
srid
The Spatial Reference System Identifier (SRID) of the raster. This property is a shortcut to getting or setting the SRID through the srs attribute. >>> rst = GDALRaster({'width': 10, 'height': 20, 'srid': 4326})
>>> rst.srid
4326
>>> rst.srid = 3086
>>> rst.srid
3086
>>> rst.srs.srid # This is equivalent
3086
geotransform
The affine transformation matrix used to georeference the source, as a tuple of six coefficients which map pixel/line coordinates into georeferenced space using the following relationship: Xgeo = GT(0) + Xpixel*GT(1) + Yline*GT(2)
Ygeo = GT(3) + Xpixel*GT(4) + Yline*GT(5)
The same values can be retrieved by accessing the origin (indices 0 and 3), scale (indices 1 and 5) and skew (indices 2 and 4) properties. The default is [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, -1.0]. >>> rst = GDALRaster({'width': 10, 'height': 20, 'srid': 4326})
>>> rst.geotransform
[0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, -1.0]
origin
Coordinates of the top left origin of the raster in the spatial reference system of the source, as a point object with x and y members. >>> rst = GDALRaster({'width': 10, 'height': 20, 'srid': 4326})
>>> rst.origin
[0.0, 0.0]
>>> rst.origin.x = 1
>>> rst.origin
[1.0, 0.0]
scale
Pixel width and height used for georeferencing the raster, as a point object with x and y members. See geotransform for more information. >>> rst = GDALRaster({'width': 10, 'height': 20, 'srid': 4326})
>>> rst.scale
[1.0, -1.0]
>>> rst.scale.x = 2
>>> rst.scale
[2.0, -1.0]
skew
Skew coefficients used to georeference the raster, as a point object with x and y members. In case of north up images, these coefficients are both 0. >>> rst = GDALRaster({'width': 10, 'height': 20, 'srid': 4326})
>>> rst.skew
[0.0, 0.0]
>>> rst.skew.x = 3
>>> rst.skew
[3.0, 0.0]
extent
Extent (boundary values) of the raster source, as a 4-tuple (xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax) in the spatial reference system of the source. >>> rst = GDALRaster({'width': 10, 'height': 20, 'srid': 4326})
>>> rst.extent
(0.0, -20.0, 10.0, 0.0)
>>> rst.origin.x = 100
>>> rst.extent
(100.0, -20.0, 110.0, 0.0)
bands
List of all bands of the source, as GDALBand instances. >>> rst = GDALRaster({"width": 1, "height": 2, 'srid': 4326,
... "bands": [{"data": [0, 1]}, {"data": [2, 3]}]})
>>> len(rst.bands)
2
>>> rst.bands[1].data()
array([[ 2., 3.]], dtype=float32)
warp(ds_input, resampling='NearestNeighbour', max_error=0.0)
Returns a warped version of this raster. The warping parameters can be specified through the ds_input argument. The use of ds_input is analogous to the corresponding argument of the class constructor. It is a dictionary with the characteristics of the target raster. Allowed dictionary key values are width, height, SRID, origin, scale, skew, datatype, driver, and name (filename). By default, the warp functions keeps most parameters equal to the values of the original source raster, so only parameters that should be changed need to be specified. Note that this includes the driver, so for file-based rasters the warp function will create a new raster on disk. The only parameter that is set differently from the source raster is the name. The default value of the raster name is the name of the source raster appended with '_copy' + source_driver_name. For file-based rasters it is recommended to provide the file path of the target raster. The resampling algorithm used for warping can be specified with the resampling argument. The default is NearestNeighbor, and the other allowed values are Bilinear, Cubic, CubicSpline, Lanczos, Average, and Mode. The max_error argument can be used to specify the maximum error measured in input pixels that is allowed in approximating the transformation. The default is 0.0 for exact calculations. For users familiar with GDAL, this function has a similar functionality to the gdalwarp command-line utility. For example, the warp function can be used for aggregating a raster to the double of its original pixel scale: >>> rst = GDALRaster({
... "width": 6, "height": 6, "srid": 3086,
... "origin": [500000, 400000],
... "scale": [100, -100],
... "bands": [{"data": range(36), "nodata_value": 99}]
... })
>>> target = rst.warp({"scale": [200, -200], "width": 3, "height": 3})
>>> target.bands[0].data()
array([[ 7., 9., 11.],
[ 19., 21., 23.],
[ 31., 33., 35.]], dtype=float32)
transform(srs, driver=None, name=None, resampling='NearestNeighbour', max_error=0.0)
Transforms this raster to a different spatial reference system (srs), which may be a SpatialReference object, or any other input accepted by SpatialReference (including spatial reference WKT and PROJ strings, or an integer SRID). It calculates the bounds and scale of the current raster in the new spatial reference system and warps the raster using the warp function. By default, the driver of the source raster is used and the name of the raster is the original name appended with '_copy' + source_driver_name. A different driver or name can be specified with the driver and name arguments. The default resampling algorithm is NearestNeighbour but can be changed using the resampling argument. The default maximum allowed error for resampling is 0.0 and can be changed using the max_error argument. Consult the warp documentation for detail on those arguments. >>> rst = GDALRaster({
... "width": 6, "height": 6, "srid": 3086,
... "origin": [500000, 400000],
... "scale": [100, -100],
... "bands": [{"data": range(36), "nodata_value": 99}]
... })
>>> target_srs = SpatialReference(4326)
>>> target = rst.transform(target_srs)
>>> target.origin
[-82.98492744885776, 27.601924753080144]
Changed in Django 3.2: Support for SpatialReference srs was added
info
Returns a string with a summary of the raster. This is equivalent to the gdalinfo command line utility.
metadata
The metadata of this raster, represented as a nested dictionary. The first-level key is the metadata domain. The second-level contains the metadata item names and values from each domain. To set or update a metadata item, pass the corresponding metadata item to the method using the nested structure described above. Only keys that are in the specified dictionary are updated; the rest of the metadata remains unchanged. To remove a metadata item, use None as the metadata value. >>> rst = GDALRaster({'width': 10, 'height': 20, 'srid': 4326})
>>> rst.metadata
{}
>>> rst.metadata = {'DEFAULT': {'OWNER': 'Django', 'VERSION': '1.0'}}
>>> rst.metadata
{'DEFAULT': {'OWNER': 'Django', 'VERSION': '1.0'}}
>>> rst.metadata = {'DEFAULT': {'OWNER': None, 'VERSION': '2.0'}}
>>> rst.metadata
{'DEFAULT': {'VERSION': '2.0'}}
vsi_buffer
A bytes representation of this raster. Returns None for rasters that are not stored in GDAL’s virtual filesystem.
is_vsi_based
A boolean indicating if this raster is stored in GDAL’s virtual filesystem.
GDALBand
class GDALBand
GDALBand instances are not created explicitly, but rather obtained from a GDALRaster object, through its bands attribute. The GDALBands contain the actual pixel values of the raster.
description
The name or description of the band, if any.
width
The width of the band in pixels (X-axis).
height
The height of the band in pixels (Y-axis).
pixel_count
The total number of pixels in this band. Is equal to width * height.
statistics(refresh=False, approximate=False)
Compute statistics on the pixel values of this band. The return value is a tuple with the following structure: (minimum, maximum, mean, standard deviation). If the approximate argument is set to True, the statistics may be computed based on overviews or a subset of image tiles. If the refresh argument is set to True, the statistics will be computed from the data directly, and the cache will be updated with the result. If a persistent cache value is found, that value is returned. For raster formats using Persistent Auxiliary Metadata (PAM) services, the statistics might be cached in an auxiliary file. In some cases this metadata might be out of sync with the pixel values or cause values from a previous call to be returned which don’t reflect the value of the approximate argument. In such cases, use the refresh argument to get updated values and store them in the cache. For empty bands (where all pixel values are “no data”), all statistics are returned as None. The statistics can also be retrieved directly by accessing the min, max, mean, and std properties.
min
The minimum pixel value of the band (excluding the “no data” value).
max
The maximum pixel value of the band (excluding the “no data” value).
mean
The mean of all pixel values of the band (excluding the “no data” value).
std
The standard deviation of all pixel values of the band (excluding the “no data” value).
nodata_value
The “no data” value for a band is generally a special marker value used to mark pixels that are not valid data. Such pixels should generally not be displayed, nor contribute to analysis operations. To delete an existing “no data” value, set this property to None (requires GDAL ≥ 2.1).
datatype(as_string=False)
The data type contained in the band, as an integer constant between 0 (Unknown) and 11. If as_string is True, the data type is returned as a string with the following possible values: GDT_Unknown, GDT_Byte, GDT_UInt16, GDT_Int16, GDT_UInt32, GDT_Int32, GDT_Float32, GDT_Float64, GDT_CInt16, GDT_CInt32, GDT_CFloat32, and GDT_CFloat64.
color_interp(as_string=False)
The color interpretation for the band, as an integer between 0and 16. If as_string is True, the data type is returned as a string with the following possible values: GCI_Undefined, GCI_GrayIndex, GCI_PaletteIndex, GCI_RedBand, GCI_GreenBand, GCI_BlueBand, GCI_AlphaBand, GCI_HueBand, GCI_SaturationBand, GCI_LightnessBand, GCI_CyanBand, GCI_MagentaBand, GCI_YellowBand, GCI_BlackBand, GCI_YCbCr_YBand, GCI_YCbCr_CbBand, and GCI_YCbCr_CrBand. GCI_YCbCr_CrBand also represents GCI_Max because both correspond to the integer 16, but only GCI_YCbCr_CrBand is returned as a string.
data(data=None, offset=None, size=None, shape=None)
The accessor to the pixel values of the GDALBand. Returns the complete data array if no parameters are provided. A subset of the pixel array can be requested by specifying an offset and block size as tuples. If NumPy is available, the data is returned as NumPy array. For performance reasons, it is highly recommended to use NumPy. Data is written to the GDALBand if the data parameter is provided. The input can be of one of the following types - packed string, buffer, list, array, and NumPy array. The number of items in the input should normally correspond to the total number of pixels in the band, or to the number of pixels for a specific block of pixel values if the offset and size parameters are provided. If the number of items in the input is different from the target pixel block, the shape parameter must be specified. The shape is a tuple that specifies the width and height of the input data in pixels. The data is then replicated to update the pixel values of the selected block. This is useful to fill an entire band with a single value, for instance. For example: >>> rst = GDALRaster({'width': 4, 'height': 4, 'srid': 4326, 'datatype': 1, 'nr_of_bands': 1})
>>> bnd = rst.bands[0]
>>> bnd.data(range(16))
>>> bnd.data()
array([[ 0, 1, 2, 3],
[ 4, 5, 6, 7],
[ 8, 9, 10, 11],
[12, 13, 14, 15]], dtype=int8)
>>> bnd.data(offset=(1, 1), size=(2, 2))
array([[ 5, 6],
[ 9, 10]], dtype=int8)
>>> bnd.data(data=[-1, -2, -3, -4], offset=(1, 1), size=(2, 2))
>>> bnd.data()
array([[ 0, 1, 2, 3],
[ 4, -1, -2, 7],
[ 8, -3, -4, 11],
[12, 13, 14, 15]], dtype=int8)
>>> bnd.data(data='\x9d\xa8\xb3\xbe', offset=(1, 1), size=(2, 2))
>>> bnd.data()
array([[ 0, 1, 2, 3],
[ 4, -99, -88, 7],
[ 8, -77, -66, 11],
[ 12, 13, 14, 15]], dtype=int8)
>>> bnd.data([1], shape=(1, 1))
>>> bnd.data()
array([[1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1]], dtype=uint8)
>>> bnd.data(range(4), shape=(1, 4))
array([[0, 0, 0, 0],
[1, 1, 1, 1],
[2, 2, 2, 2],
[3, 3, 3, 3]], dtype=uint8)
metadata
The metadata of this band. The functionality is identical to GDALRaster.metadata.
Creating rasters from data This section describes how to create rasters from scratch using the ds_input parameter. A new raster is created when a dict is passed to the GDALRaster constructor. The dictionary contains defining parameters of the new raster, such as the origin, size, or spatial reference system. The dictionary can also contain pixel data and information about the format of the new raster. The resulting raster can therefore be file-based or memory-based, depending on the driver specified. There’s no standard for describing raster data in a dictionary or JSON flavor. The definition of the dictionary input to the GDALRaster class is therefore specific to Django. It’s inspired by the geojson format, but the geojson standard is currently limited to vector formats. Examples of using the different keys when creating rasters can be found in the documentation of the corresponding attributes and methods of the GDALRaster and GDALBand classes. The ds_input dictionary Only a few keys are required in the ds_input dictionary to create a raster: width, height, and srid. All other parameters have default values (see the table below). The list of keys that can be passed in the ds_input dictionary is closely related but not identical to the GDALRaster properties. Many of the parameters are mapped directly to those properties; the others are described below. The following table describes all keys that can be set in the ds_input dictionary.
Key Default Usage
srid required Mapped to the srid attribute
width required Mapped to the width attribute
height required Mapped to the height attribute
driver MEM Mapped to the driver attribute
name '' See below
origin 0 Mapped to the origin attribute
scale 0 Mapped to the scale attribute
skew 0 Mapped to the width attribute
bands [] See below
nr_of_bands 0 See below
datatype 6 See below
papsz_options {} See below
name
String representing the name of the raster. When creating a file-based raster, this parameter must be the file path for the new raster. If the name starts with /vsimem/, the raster is created in GDAL’s virtual filesystem.
datatype
Integer representing the data type for all the bands. Defaults to 6 (Float32). All bands of a new raster are required to have the same datatype. The value mapping is:
Value GDAL Pixel Type Description
1 GDT_Byte Eight bit unsigned integer
2 GDT_UInt16 Sixteen bit unsigned integer
3 GDT_Int16 Sixteen bit signed integer
4 GDT_UInt32 Thirty-two bit unsigned integer
5 GDT_Int32 Thirty-two bit signed integer
6 GDT_Float32 Thirty-two bit floating point
7 GDT_Float64 Sixty-four bit floating point
nr_of_bands
Integer representing the number of bands of the raster. A raster can be created without passing band data upon creation. If the number of bands isn’t specified, it’s automatically calculated from the length of the bands input. The number of bands can’t be changed after creation.
bands
A list of band_input dictionaries with band input data. The resulting band indices are the same as in the list provided. The definition of the band input dictionary is given below. If band data isn’t provided, the raster bands values are instantiated as an array of zeros and the “no data” value is set to None.
papsz_options
A dictionary with raster creation options. The key-value pairs of the input dictionary are passed to the driver on creation of the raster. The available options are driver-specific and are described in the documentation of each driver. The values in the dictionary are not case-sensitive and are automatically converted to the correct string format upon creation. The following example uses some of the options available for the GTiff driver. The result is a compressed signed byte raster with an internal tiling scheme. The internal tiles have a block size of 23 by 23: >>> GDALRaster({
... 'driver': 'GTiff',
... 'name': '/path/to/new/file.tif',
... 'srid': 4326,
... 'width': 255,
... 'height': 255,
... 'nr_of_bands': 1,
... 'papsz_options': {
... 'compress': 'packbits',
... 'pixeltype': 'signedbyte',
... 'tiled': 'yes',
... 'blockxsize': 23,
... 'blockysize': 23,
... }
... })
The band_input dictionary The bands key in the ds_input dictionary is a list of band_input dictionaries. Each band_input dictionary can contain pixel values and the “no data” value to be set on the bands of the new raster. The data array can have the full size of the new raster or be smaller. For arrays that are smaller than the full raster, the size, shape, and offset keys control the pixel values. The corresponding keys are passed to the data() method. Their functionality is the same as setting the band data with that method. The following table describes the keys that can be used.
Key Default Usage
nodata_value None Mapped to the nodata_value attribute
data Same as nodata_value or 0
Passed to the data() method
size
(with, height) of raster Passed to the data() method
shape Same as size Passed to the data() method
offset (0, 0) Passed to the data() method Using GDAL’s Virtual Filesystem GDAL can access files stored in the filesystem, but also supports virtual filesystems to abstract accessing other kind of files, such as compressed, encrypted, or remote files. Using memory-based Virtual Filesystem GDAL has an internal memory-based filesystem, which allows treating blocks of memory as files. It can be used to read and write GDALRaster objects to and from binary file buffers. This is useful in web contexts where rasters might be obtained as a buffer from a remote storage or returned from a view without being written to disk. GDALRaster objects are created in the virtual filesystem when a bytes object is provided as input, or when the file path starts with /vsimem/. Input provided as bytes has to be a full binary representation of a file. For instance: # Read a raster as a file object from a remote source.
>>> from urllib.request import urlopen
>>> dat = urlopen('http://example.com/raster.tif').read()
# Instantiate a raster from the bytes object.
>>> rst = GDALRaster(dat)
# The name starts with /vsimem/, indicating that the raster lives in the
# virtual filesystem.
>>> rst.name
'/vsimem/da300bdb-129d-49a8-b336-e410a9428dad'
To create a new virtual file-based raster from scratch, use the ds_input dictionary representation and provide a name argument that starts with /vsimem/ (for detail of the dictionary representation, see Creating rasters from data). For virtual file-based rasters, the vsi_buffer attribute returns the bytes representation of the raster. Here’s how to create a raster and return it as a file in an HttpResponse: >>> from django.http import HttpResponse
>>> rst = GDALRaster({
... 'name': '/vsimem/temporarymemfile',
... 'driver': 'tif',
... 'width': 6, 'height': 6, 'srid': 3086,
... 'origin': [500000, 400000],
... 'scale': [100, -100],
... 'bands': [{'data': range(36), 'nodata_value': 99}]
... })
>>> HttpResponse(rast.vsi_buffer, 'image/tiff')
Using other Virtual Filesystems New in Django 4.0. Depending on the local build of GDAL other virtual filesystems may be supported. You can use them by prepending the provided path with the appropriate /vsi*/ prefix. See the GDAL Virtual Filesystems documentation for more details. Compressed rasters Instead decompressing the file and instantiating the resulting raster, GDAL can directly access compressed files using the /vsizip/, /vsigzip/, or /vsitar/ virtual filesystems: >>> from django.contrib.gis.gdal import GDALRaster
>>> rst = GDALRaster('/vsizip/path/to/your/file.zip/path/to/raster.tif')
>>> rst = GDALRaster('/vsigzip/path/to/your/file.gz')
>>> rst = GDALRaster('/vsitar/path/to/your/file.tar/path/to/raster.tif')
Network rasters GDAL can support online resources and storage providers transparently. As long as it’s built with such capabilities. To access a public raster file with no authentication, you can use /vsicurl/: >>> from django.contrib.gis.gdal import GDALRaster
>>> rst = GDALRaster('/vsicurl/https://example.com/raster.tif')
>>> rst.name
'/vsicurl/https://example.com/raster.tif'
For commercial storage providers (e.g. /vsis3/) the system should be previously configured for authentication and possibly other settings (see the GDAL Virtual Filesystems documentation for available options). Settings GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH A string specifying the location of the GDAL library. Typically, this setting is only used if the GDAL library is in a non-standard location (e.g., /home/john/lib/libgdal.so). Exceptions
exception GDALException
The base GDAL exception, indicating a GDAL-related error.
exception SRSException
An exception raised when an error occurs when constructing or using a spatial reference system object. | django.ref.contrib.gis.gdal#std:setting-GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH |
Geolocation with GeoIP2 The GeoIP2 object is a wrapper for the MaxMind geoip2 Python library. [1] In order to perform IP-based geolocation, the GeoIP2 object requires the geoip2 Python library and the GeoIP Country and/or City datasets in binary format (the CSV files will not work!). Grab the GeoLite2-Country.mmdb.gz and GeoLite2-City.mmdb.gz files and unzip them in a directory corresponding to the GEOIP_PATH setting. Additionally, it is recommended to install the libmaxminddb C library, so that geoip2 can leverage the C library’s faster speed. Example Here is an example of its usage: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geoip2 import GeoIP2
>>> g = GeoIP2()
>>> g.country('google.com')
{'country_code': 'US', 'country_name': 'United States'}
>>> g.city('72.14.207.99')
{'city': 'Mountain View',
'continent_code': 'NA',
'continent_name': 'North America',
'country_code': 'US',
'country_name': 'United States',
'dma_code': 807,
'is_in_european_union': False,
'latitude': 37.419200897216797,
'longitude': -122.05740356445312,
'postal_code': '94043',
'region': 'CA',
'time_zone': 'America/Los_Angeles'}
>>> g.lat_lon('salon.com')
(39.0437, -77.4875)
>>> g.lon_lat('uh.edu')
(-95.4342, 29.834)
>>> g.geos('24.124.1.80').wkt
'POINT (-97 38)'
API Reference
class GeoIP2(path=None, cache=0, country=None, city=None)
The GeoIP object does not require any parameters to use the default settings. However, at the very least the GEOIP_PATH setting should be set with the path of the location of your GeoIP datasets. The following initialization keywords may be used to customize any of the defaults.
Keyword Arguments Description
path Base directory to where GeoIP data is located or the full path to where the city or country data files (.mmdb) are located. Assumes that both the city and country datasets are located in this directory; overrides the GEOIP_PATH setting.
cache The cache settings when opening up the GeoIP datasets. May be an integer in (0, 1, 2, 4, 8) corresponding to the MODE_AUTO, MODE_MMAP_EXT, MODE_MMAP, and GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE MODE_MEMORY C API settings, respectively. Defaults to 0 (MODE_AUTO).
country The name of the GeoIP country data file. Defaults to GeoLite2-Country.mmdb. Setting this keyword overrides the GEOIP_COUNTRY setting.
city The name of the GeoIP city data file. Defaults to GeoLite2-City.mmdb. Setting this keyword overrides the GEOIP_CITY setting. Methods Instantiating
classmethod GeoIP2.open(path, cache)
This classmethod instantiates the GeoIP object from the given database path and given cache setting. Querying All the following querying routines may take either a string IP address or a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). For example, both '205.186.163.125' and 'djangoproject.com' would be valid query parameters.
GeoIP2.city(query)
Returns a dictionary of city information for the given query. Some of the values in the dictionary may be undefined (None).
GeoIP2.country(query)
Returns a dictionary with the country code and country for the given query.
GeoIP2.country_code(query)
Returns the country code corresponding to the query.
GeoIP2.country_name(query)
Returns the country name corresponding to the query. Coordinate Retrieval
GeoIP2.coords(query)
Returns a coordinate tuple of (longitude, latitude).
GeoIP2.lon_lat(query)
Returns a coordinate tuple of (longitude, latitude).
GeoIP2.lat_lon(query)
Returns a coordinate tuple of (latitude, longitude),
GeoIP2.geos(query)
Returns a Point object corresponding to the query. Settings GEOIP_PATH A string or pathlib.Path specifying the directory where the GeoIP data files are located. This setting is required unless manually specified with path keyword when initializing the GeoIP2 object. GEOIP_COUNTRY The basename to use for the GeoIP country data file. Defaults to 'GeoLite2-Country.mmdb'. GEOIP_CITY The basename to use for the GeoIP city data file. Defaults to 'GeoLite2-City.mmdb'. Exceptions
exception GeoIP2Exception
The exception raised when an error occurs in a call to the underlying geoip2 library.
Footnotes
[1]
GeoIP(R) is a registered trademark of MaxMind, Inc. | django.ref.contrib.gis.geoip2#std:setting-GEOIP_CITY |
Geolocation with GeoIP2 The GeoIP2 object is a wrapper for the MaxMind geoip2 Python library. [1] In order to perform IP-based geolocation, the GeoIP2 object requires the geoip2 Python library and the GeoIP Country and/or City datasets in binary format (the CSV files will not work!). Grab the GeoLite2-Country.mmdb.gz and GeoLite2-City.mmdb.gz files and unzip them in a directory corresponding to the GEOIP_PATH setting. Additionally, it is recommended to install the libmaxminddb C library, so that geoip2 can leverage the C library’s faster speed. Example Here is an example of its usage: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geoip2 import GeoIP2
>>> g = GeoIP2()
>>> g.country('google.com')
{'country_code': 'US', 'country_name': 'United States'}
>>> g.city('72.14.207.99')
{'city': 'Mountain View',
'continent_code': 'NA',
'continent_name': 'North America',
'country_code': 'US',
'country_name': 'United States',
'dma_code': 807,
'is_in_european_union': False,
'latitude': 37.419200897216797,
'longitude': -122.05740356445312,
'postal_code': '94043',
'region': 'CA',
'time_zone': 'America/Los_Angeles'}
>>> g.lat_lon('salon.com')
(39.0437, -77.4875)
>>> g.lon_lat('uh.edu')
(-95.4342, 29.834)
>>> g.geos('24.124.1.80').wkt
'POINT (-97 38)'
API Reference
class GeoIP2(path=None, cache=0, country=None, city=None)
The GeoIP object does not require any parameters to use the default settings. However, at the very least the GEOIP_PATH setting should be set with the path of the location of your GeoIP datasets. The following initialization keywords may be used to customize any of the defaults.
Keyword Arguments Description
path Base directory to where GeoIP data is located or the full path to where the city or country data files (.mmdb) are located. Assumes that both the city and country datasets are located in this directory; overrides the GEOIP_PATH setting.
cache The cache settings when opening up the GeoIP datasets. May be an integer in (0, 1, 2, 4, 8) corresponding to the MODE_AUTO, MODE_MMAP_EXT, MODE_MMAP, and GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE MODE_MEMORY C API settings, respectively. Defaults to 0 (MODE_AUTO).
country The name of the GeoIP country data file. Defaults to GeoLite2-Country.mmdb. Setting this keyword overrides the GEOIP_COUNTRY setting.
city The name of the GeoIP city data file. Defaults to GeoLite2-City.mmdb. Setting this keyword overrides the GEOIP_CITY setting. Methods Instantiating
classmethod GeoIP2.open(path, cache)
This classmethod instantiates the GeoIP object from the given database path and given cache setting. Querying All the following querying routines may take either a string IP address or a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). For example, both '205.186.163.125' and 'djangoproject.com' would be valid query parameters.
GeoIP2.city(query)
Returns a dictionary of city information for the given query. Some of the values in the dictionary may be undefined (None).
GeoIP2.country(query)
Returns a dictionary with the country code and country for the given query.
GeoIP2.country_code(query)
Returns the country code corresponding to the query.
GeoIP2.country_name(query)
Returns the country name corresponding to the query. Coordinate Retrieval
GeoIP2.coords(query)
Returns a coordinate tuple of (longitude, latitude).
GeoIP2.lon_lat(query)
Returns a coordinate tuple of (longitude, latitude).
GeoIP2.lat_lon(query)
Returns a coordinate tuple of (latitude, longitude),
GeoIP2.geos(query)
Returns a Point object corresponding to the query. Settings GEOIP_PATH A string or pathlib.Path specifying the directory where the GeoIP data files are located. This setting is required unless manually specified with path keyword when initializing the GeoIP2 object. GEOIP_COUNTRY The basename to use for the GeoIP country data file. Defaults to 'GeoLite2-Country.mmdb'. GEOIP_CITY The basename to use for the GeoIP city data file. Defaults to 'GeoLite2-City.mmdb'. Exceptions
exception GeoIP2Exception
The exception raised when an error occurs in a call to the underlying geoip2 library.
Footnotes
[1]
GeoIP(R) is a registered trademark of MaxMind, Inc. | django.ref.contrib.gis.geoip2#std:setting-GEOIP_COUNTRY |
Geolocation with GeoIP2 The GeoIP2 object is a wrapper for the MaxMind geoip2 Python library. [1] In order to perform IP-based geolocation, the GeoIP2 object requires the geoip2 Python library and the GeoIP Country and/or City datasets in binary format (the CSV files will not work!). Grab the GeoLite2-Country.mmdb.gz and GeoLite2-City.mmdb.gz files and unzip them in a directory corresponding to the GEOIP_PATH setting. Additionally, it is recommended to install the libmaxminddb C library, so that geoip2 can leverage the C library’s faster speed. Example Here is an example of its usage: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geoip2 import GeoIP2
>>> g = GeoIP2()
>>> g.country('google.com')
{'country_code': 'US', 'country_name': 'United States'}
>>> g.city('72.14.207.99')
{'city': 'Mountain View',
'continent_code': 'NA',
'continent_name': 'North America',
'country_code': 'US',
'country_name': 'United States',
'dma_code': 807,
'is_in_european_union': False,
'latitude': 37.419200897216797,
'longitude': -122.05740356445312,
'postal_code': '94043',
'region': 'CA',
'time_zone': 'America/Los_Angeles'}
>>> g.lat_lon('salon.com')
(39.0437, -77.4875)
>>> g.lon_lat('uh.edu')
(-95.4342, 29.834)
>>> g.geos('24.124.1.80').wkt
'POINT (-97 38)'
API Reference
class GeoIP2(path=None, cache=0, country=None, city=None)
The GeoIP object does not require any parameters to use the default settings. However, at the very least the GEOIP_PATH setting should be set with the path of the location of your GeoIP datasets. The following initialization keywords may be used to customize any of the defaults.
Keyword Arguments Description
path Base directory to where GeoIP data is located or the full path to where the city or country data files (.mmdb) are located. Assumes that both the city and country datasets are located in this directory; overrides the GEOIP_PATH setting.
cache The cache settings when opening up the GeoIP datasets. May be an integer in (0, 1, 2, 4, 8) corresponding to the MODE_AUTO, MODE_MMAP_EXT, MODE_MMAP, and GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE MODE_MEMORY C API settings, respectively. Defaults to 0 (MODE_AUTO).
country The name of the GeoIP country data file. Defaults to GeoLite2-Country.mmdb. Setting this keyword overrides the GEOIP_COUNTRY setting.
city The name of the GeoIP city data file. Defaults to GeoLite2-City.mmdb. Setting this keyword overrides the GEOIP_CITY setting. Methods Instantiating
classmethod GeoIP2.open(path, cache)
This classmethod instantiates the GeoIP object from the given database path and given cache setting. Querying All the following querying routines may take either a string IP address or a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). For example, both '205.186.163.125' and 'djangoproject.com' would be valid query parameters.
GeoIP2.city(query)
Returns a dictionary of city information for the given query. Some of the values in the dictionary may be undefined (None).
GeoIP2.country(query)
Returns a dictionary with the country code and country for the given query.
GeoIP2.country_code(query)
Returns the country code corresponding to the query.
GeoIP2.country_name(query)
Returns the country name corresponding to the query. Coordinate Retrieval
GeoIP2.coords(query)
Returns a coordinate tuple of (longitude, latitude).
GeoIP2.lon_lat(query)
Returns a coordinate tuple of (longitude, latitude).
GeoIP2.lat_lon(query)
Returns a coordinate tuple of (latitude, longitude),
GeoIP2.geos(query)
Returns a Point object corresponding to the query. Settings GEOIP_PATH A string or pathlib.Path specifying the directory where the GeoIP data files are located. This setting is required unless manually specified with path keyword when initializing the GeoIP2 object. GEOIP_COUNTRY The basename to use for the GeoIP country data file. Defaults to 'GeoLite2-Country.mmdb'. GEOIP_CITY The basename to use for the GeoIP city data file. Defaults to 'GeoLite2-City.mmdb'. Exceptions
exception GeoIP2Exception
The exception raised when an error occurs in a call to the underlying geoip2 library.
Footnotes
[1]
GeoIP(R) is a registered trademark of MaxMind, Inc. | django.ref.contrib.gis.geoip2#std:setting-GEOIP_PATH |
GEOS API Background What is GEOS? GEOS stands for Geometry Engine - Open Source, and is a C++ library, ported from the Java Topology Suite. GEOS implements the OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL spatial predicate functions and spatial operators. GEOS, now an OSGeo project, was initially developed and maintained by Refractions Research of Victoria, Canada. Features GeoDjango implements a high-level Python wrapper for the GEOS library, its features include: A BSD-licensed interface to the GEOS geometry routines, implemented purely in Python using ctypes. Loosely-coupled to GeoDjango. For example, GEOSGeometry objects may be used outside of a Django project/application. In other words, no need to have DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE set or use a database, etc. Mutability: GEOSGeometry objects may be modified. Cross-platform and tested; compatible with Windows, Linux, Solaris, and macOS platforms. Tutorial This section contains a brief introduction and tutorial to using GEOSGeometry objects. Creating a Geometry GEOSGeometry objects may be created in a few ways. The first is to simply instantiate the object on some spatial input – the following are examples of creating the same geometry from WKT, HEX, WKB, and GeoJSON: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import GEOSGeometry
>>> pnt = GEOSGeometry('POINT(5 23)') # WKT
>>> pnt = GEOSGeometry('010100000000000000000014400000000000003740') # HEX
>>> pnt = GEOSGeometry(buffer('\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x14@\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x007@'))
>>> pnt = GEOSGeometry('{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 5.000000, 23.000000 ] }') # GeoJSON
Another option is to use the constructor for the specific geometry type that you wish to create. For example, a Point object may be created by passing in the X and Y coordinates into its constructor: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point
>>> pnt = Point(5, 23)
All these constructors take the keyword argument srid. For example: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import GEOSGeometry, LineString, Point
>>> print(GEOSGeometry('POINT (0 0)', srid=4326))
SRID=4326;POINT (0 0)
>>> print(LineString((0, 0), (1, 1), srid=4326))
SRID=4326;LINESTRING (0 0, 1 1)
>>> print(Point(0, 0, srid=32140))
SRID=32140;POINT (0 0)
Finally, there is the fromfile() factory method which returns a GEOSGeometry object from a file: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import fromfile
>>> pnt = fromfile('/path/to/pnt.wkt')
>>> pnt = fromfile(open('/path/to/pnt.wkt'))
My logs are filled with GEOS-related errors You find many TypeError or AttributeError exceptions filling your web server’s log files. This generally means that you are creating GEOS objects at the top level of some of your Python modules. Then, due to a race condition in the garbage collector, your module is garbage collected before the GEOS object. To prevent this, create GEOSGeometry objects inside the local scope of your functions/methods. Geometries are Pythonic GEOSGeometry objects are ‘Pythonic’, in other words components may be accessed, modified, and iterated over using standard Python conventions. For example, you can iterate over the coordinates in a Point: >>> pnt = Point(5, 23)
>>> [coord for coord in pnt]
[5.0, 23.0]
With any geometry object, the GEOSGeometry.coords property may be used to get the geometry coordinates as a Python tuple: >>> pnt.coords
(5.0, 23.0)
You can get/set geometry components using standard Python indexing techniques. However, what is returned depends on the geometry type of the object. For example, indexing on a LineString returns a coordinate tuple: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import LineString
>>> line = LineString((0, 0), (0, 50), (50, 50), (50, 0), (0, 0))
>>> line[0]
(0.0, 0.0)
>>> line[-2]
(50.0, 0.0)
Whereas indexing on a Polygon will return the ring (a LinearRing object) corresponding to the index: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import Polygon
>>> poly = Polygon( ((0.0, 0.0), (0.0, 50.0), (50.0, 50.0), (50.0, 0.0), (0.0, 0.0)) )
>>> poly[0]
<LinearRing object at 0x1044395b0>
>>> poly[0][-2] # second-to-last coordinate of external ring
(50.0, 0.0)
In addition, coordinates/components of the geometry may added or modified, just like a Python list: >>> line[0] = (1.0, 1.0)
>>> line.pop()
(0.0, 0.0)
>>> line.append((1.0, 1.0))
>>> line.coords
((1.0, 1.0), (0.0, 50.0), (50.0, 50.0), (50.0, 0.0), (1.0, 1.0))
Geometries support set-like operators: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import LineString
>>> ls1 = LineString((0, 0), (2, 2))
>>> ls2 = LineString((1, 1), (3, 3))
>>> print(ls1 | ls2) # equivalent to `ls1.union(ls2)`
MULTILINESTRING ((0 0, 1 1), (1 1, 2 2), (2 2, 3 3))
>>> print(ls1 & ls2) # equivalent to `ls1.intersection(ls2)`
LINESTRING (1 1, 2 2)
>>> print(ls1 - ls2) # equivalent to `ls1.difference(ls2)`
LINESTRING(0 0, 1 1)
>>> print(ls1 ^ ls2) # equivalent to `ls1.sym_difference(ls2)`
MULTILINESTRING ((0 0, 1 1), (2 2, 3 3))
Equality operator doesn’t check spatial equality The GEOSGeometry equality operator uses equals_exact(), not equals(), i.e. it requires the compared geometries to have the same coordinates in the same positions with the same SRIDs: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import LineString
>>> ls1 = LineString((0, 0), (1, 1))
>>> ls2 = LineString((1, 1), (0, 0))
>>> ls3 = LineString((1, 1), (0, 0), srid=4326)
>>> ls1.equals(ls2)
True
>>> ls1 == ls2
False
>>> ls3 == ls2 # different SRIDs
False
Geometry Objects GEOSGeometry
class GEOSGeometry(geo_input, srid=None)
Parameters:
geo_input – Geometry input value (string or buffer)
srid (int) – spatial reference identifier
This is the base class for all GEOS geometry objects. It initializes on the given geo_input argument, and then assumes the proper geometry subclass (e.g., GEOSGeometry('POINT(1 1)') will create a Point object). The srid parameter, if given, is set as the SRID of the created geometry if geo_input doesn’t have an SRID. If different SRIDs are provided through the geo_input and srid parameters, ValueError is raised: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import GEOSGeometry
>>> GEOSGeometry('POINT EMPTY', srid=4326).ewkt
'SRID=4326;POINT EMPTY'
>>> GEOSGeometry('SRID=4326;POINT EMPTY', srid=4326).ewkt
'SRID=4326;POINT EMPTY'
>>> GEOSGeometry('SRID=1;POINT EMPTY', srid=4326)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: Input geometry already has SRID: 1.
The following input formats, along with their corresponding Python types, are accepted:
Format Input Type
WKT / EWKT str
HEX / HEXEWKB str
WKB / EWKB buffer
GeoJSON str For the GeoJSON format, the SRID is set based on the crs member. If crs isn’t provided, the SRID defaults to 4326.
classmethod GEOSGeometry.from_gml(gml_string)
Constructs a GEOSGeometry from the given GML string.
Properties
GEOSGeometry.coords
Returns the coordinates of the geometry as a tuple.
GEOSGeometry.dims
Returns the dimension of the geometry:
0 for Points and MultiPoints
1 for LineStrings and MultiLineStrings
2 for Polygons and MultiPolygons
-1 for empty GeometryCollections the maximum dimension of its elements for non-empty GeometryCollections
GEOSGeometry.empty
Returns whether or not the set of points in the geometry is empty.
GEOSGeometry.geom_type
Returns a string corresponding to the type of geometry. For example: >>> pnt = GEOSGeometry('POINT(5 23)')
>>> pnt.geom_type
'Point'
GEOSGeometry.geom_typeid
Returns the GEOS geometry type identification number. The following table shows the value for each geometry type:
Geometry ID
Point 0
LineString 1
LinearRing 2
Polygon 3
MultiPoint 4
MultiLineString 5
MultiPolygon 6
GeometryCollection 7
GEOSGeometry.num_coords
Returns the number of coordinates in the geometry.
GEOSGeometry.num_geom
Returns the number of geometries in this geometry. In other words, will return 1 on anything but geometry collections.
GEOSGeometry.hasz
Returns a boolean indicating whether the geometry is three-dimensional.
GEOSGeometry.ring
Returns a boolean indicating whether the geometry is a LinearRing.
GEOSGeometry.simple
Returns a boolean indicating whether the geometry is ‘simple’. A geometry is simple if and only if it does not intersect itself (except at boundary points). For example, a LineString object is not simple if it intersects itself. Thus, LinearRing and Polygon objects are always simple because they do cannot intersect themselves, by definition.
GEOSGeometry.valid
Returns a boolean indicating whether the geometry is valid.
GEOSGeometry.valid_reason
Returns a string describing the reason why a geometry is invalid.
GEOSGeometry.srid
Property that may be used to retrieve or set the SRID associated with the geometry. For example: >>> pnt = Point(5, 23)
>>> print(pnt.srid)
None
>>> pnt.srid = 4326
>>> pnt.srid
4326
Output Properties The properties in this section export the GEOSGeometry object into a different. This output may be in the form of a string, buffer, or even another object.
GEOSGeometry.ewkt
Returns the “extended” Well-Known Text of the geometry. This representation is specific to PostGIS and is a superset of the OGC WKT standard. [1] Essentially the SRID is prepended to the WKT representation, for example SRID=4326;POINT(5 23). Note The output from this property does not include the 3dm, 3dz, and 4d information that PostGIS supports in its EWKT representations.
GEOSGeometry.hex
Returns the WKB of this Geometry in hexadecimal form. Please note that the SRID value is not included in this representation because it is not a part of the OGC specification (use the GEOSGeometry.hexewkb property instead).
GEOSGeometry.hexewkb
Returns the EWKB of this Geometry in hexadecimal form. This is an extension of the WKB specification that includes the SRID value that are a part of this geometry.
GEOSGeometry.json
Returns the GeoJSON representation of the geometry. Note that the result is not a complete GeoJSON structure but only the geometry key content of a GeoJSON structure. See also GeoJSON Serializer.
GEOSGeometry.geojson
Alias for GEOSGeometry.json.
GEOSGeometry.kml
Returns a KML (Keyhole Markup Language) representation of the geometry. This should only be used for geometries with an SRID of 4326 (WGS84), but this restriction is not enforced.
GEOSGeometry.ogr
Returns an OGRGeometry object corresponding to the GEOS geometry.
GEOSGeometry.wkb
Returns the WKB (Well-Known Binary) representation of this Geometry as a Python buffer. SRID value is not included, use the GEOSGeometry.ewkb property instead.
GEOSGeometry.ewkb
Return the EWKB representation of this Geometry as a Python buffer. This is an extension of the WKB specification that includes any SRID value that are a part of this geometry.
GEOSGeometry.wkt
Returns the Well-Known Text of the geometry (an OGC standard).
Spatial Predicate Methods All of the following spatial predicate methods take another GEOSGeometry instance (other) as a parameter, and return a boolean.
GEOSGeometry.contains(other)
Returns True if other.within(this) returns True.
GEOSGeometry.covers(other)
Returns True if this geometry covers the specified geometry. The covers predicate has the following equivalent definitions: Every point of the other geometry is a point of this geometry. The DE-9IM Intersection Matrix for the two geometries is T*****FF*, *T****FF*, ***T**FF*, or ****T*FF*. If either geometry is empty, returns False. This predicate is similar to GEOSGeometry.contains(), but is more inclusive (i.e. returns True for more cases). In particular, unlike contains() it does not distinguish between points in the boundary and in the interior of geometries. For most situations, covers() should be preferred to contains(). As an added benefit, covers() is more amenable to optimization and hence should outperform contains().
GEOSGeometry.crosses(other)
Returns True if the DE-9IM intersection matrix for the two Geometries is T*T****** (for a point and a curve,a point and an area or a line and an area) 0******** (for two curves).
GEOSGeometry.disjoint(other)
Returns True if the DE-9IM intersection matrix for the two geometries is FF*FF****.
GEOSGeometry.equals(other)
Returns True if the DE-9IM intersection matrix for the two geometries is T*F**FFF*.
GEOSGeometry.equals_exact(other, tolerance=0)
Returns true if the two geometries are exactly equal, up to a specified tolerance. The tolerance value should be a floating point number representing the error tolerance in the comparison, e.g., poly1.equals_exact(poly2, 0.001) will compare equality to within one thousandth of a unit.
GEOSGeometry.intersects(other)
Returns True if GEOSGeometry.disjoint() is False.
GEOSGeometry.overlaps(other)
Returns true if the DE-9IM intersection matrix for the two geometries is T*T***T** (for two points or two surfaces) 1*T***T** (for two curves).
GEOSGeometry.relate_pattern(other, pattern)
Returns True if the elements in the DE-9IM intersection matrix for this geometry and the other matches the given pattern – a string of nine characters from the alphabet: {T, F, *, 0}.
GEOSGeometry.touches(other)
Returns True if the DE-9IM intersection matrix for the two geometries is FT*******, F**T***** or F***T****.
GEOSGeometry.within(other)
Returns True if the DE-9IM intersection matrix for the two geometries is T*F**F***.
Topological Methods
GEOSGeometry.buffer(width, quadsegs=8)
Returns a GEOSGeometry that represents all points whose distance from this geometry is less than or equal to the given width. The optional quadsegs keyword sets the number of segments used to approximate a quarter circle (defaults is 8).
GEOSGeometry.buffer_with_style(width, quadsegs=8, end_cap_style=1, join_style=1, mitre_limit=5.0)
Same as buffer(), but allows customizing the style of the buffer.
end_cap_style can be round (1), flat (2), or square (3).
join_style can be round (1), mitre (2), or bevel (3). Mitre ratio limit (mitre_limit) only affects mitered join style.
GEOSGeometry.difference(other)
Returns a GEOSGeometry representing the points making up this geometry that do not make up other.
GEOSGeometry.interpolate(distance)
GEOSGeometry.interpolate_normalized(distance)
Given a distance (float), returns the point (or closest point) within the geometry (LineString or MultiLineString) at that distance. The normalized version takes the distance as a float between 0 (origin) and 1 (endpoint). Reverse of GEOSGeometry.project().
GEOSGeometry.intersection(other)
Returns a GEOSGeometry representing the points shared by this geometry and other.
GEOSGeometry.project(point)
GEOSGeometry.project_normalized(point)
Returns the distance (float) from the origin of the geometry (LineString or MultiLineString) to the point projected on the geometry (that is to a point of the line the closest to the given point). The normalized version returns the distance as a float between 0 (origin) and 1 (endpoint). Reverse of GEOSGeometry.interpolate().
GEOSGeometry.relate(other)
Returns the DE-9IM intersection matrix (a string) representing the topological relationship between this geometry and the other.
GEOSGeometry.simplify(tolerance=0.0, preserve_topology=False)
Returns a new GEOSGeometry, simplified to the specified tolerance using the Douglas-Peucker algorithm. A higher tolerance value implies fewer points in the output. If no tolerance is provided, it defaults to 0. By default, this function does not preserve topology. For example, Polygon objects can be split, be collapsed into lines, or disappear. Polygon holes can be created or disappear, and lines may cross. By specifying preserve_topology=True, the result will have the same dimension and number of components as the input; this is significantly slower, however.
GEOSGeometry.sym_difference(other)
Returns a GEOSGeometry combining the points in this geometry not in other, and the points in other not in this geometry.
GEOSGeometry.union(other)
Returns a GEOSGeometry representing all the points in this geometry and the other.
Topological Properties
GEOSGeometry.boundary
Returns the boundary as a newly allocated Geometry object.
GEOSGeometry.centroid
Returns a Point object representing the geometric center of the geometry. The point is not guaranteed to be on the interior of the geometry.
GEOSGeometry.convex_hull
Returns the smallest Polygon that contains all the points in the geometry.
GEOSGeometry.envelope
Returns a Polygon that represents the bounding envelope of this geometry. Note that it can also return a Point if the input geometry is a point.
GEOSGeometry.point_on_surface
Computes and returns a Point guaranteed to be on the interior of this geometry.
GEOSGeometry.unary_union
Computes the union of all the elements of this geometry. The result obeys the following contract: Unioning a set of LineStrings has the effect of fully noding and dissolving the linework. Unioning a set of Polygons will always return a Polygon or MultiPolygon geometry (unlike GEOSGeometry.union(), which may return geometries of lower dimension if a topology collapse occurs).
Other Properties & Methods
GEOSGeometry.area
This property returns the area of the Geometry.
GEOSGeometry.extent
This property returns the extent of this geometry as a 4-tuple, consisting of (xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax).
GEOSGeometry.clone()
This method returns a GEOSGeometry that is a clone of the original.
GEOSGeometry.distance(geom)
Returns the distance between the closest points on this geometry and the given geom (another GEOSGeometry object). Note GEOS distance calculations are linear – in other words, GEOS does not perform a spherical calculation even if the SRID specifies a geographic coordinate system.
GEOSGeometry.length
Returns the length of this geometry (e.g., 0 for a Point, the length of a LineString, or the circumference of a Polygon).
GEOSGeometry.prepared
Returns a GEOS PreparedGeometry for the contents of this geometry. PreparedGeometry objects are optimized for the contains, intersects, covers, crosses, disjoint, overlaps, touches and within operations. Refer to the Prepared Geometries documentation for more information.
GEOSGeometry.srs
Returns a SpatialReference object corresponding to the SRID of the geometry or None.
GEOSGeometry.transform(ct, clone=False)
Transforms the geometry according to the given coordinate transformation parameter (ct), which may be an integer SRID, spatial reference WKT string, a PROJ string, a SpatialReference object, or a CoordTransform object. By default, the geometry is transformed in-place and nothing is returned. However if the clone keyword is set, then the geometry is not modified and a transformed clone of the geometry is returned instead. Note Raises GEOSException if GDAL is not available or if the geometry’s SRID is None or less than 0. It doesn’t impose any constraints on the geometry’s SRID if called with a CoordTransform object.
GEOSGeometry.normalize()
Converts this geometry to canonical form: >>> g = MultiPoint(Point(0, 0), Point(2, 2), Point(1, 1))
>>> print(g)
MULTIPOINT (0 0, 2 2, 1 1)
>>> g.normalize()
>>> print(g)
MULTIPOINT (2 2, 1 1, 0 0)
Point
class Point(x=None, y=None, z=None, srid=None)
Point objects are instantiated using arguments that represent the component coordinates of the point or with a single sequence coordinates. For example, the following are equivalent: >>> pnt = Point(5, 23)
>>> pnt = Point([5, 23])
Empty Point objects may be instantiated by passing no arguments or an empty sequence. The following are equivalent: >>> pnt = Point()
>>> pnt = Point([])
LineString
class LineString(*args, **kwargs)
LineString objects are instantiated using arguments that are either a sequence of coordinates or Point objects. For example, the following are equivalent: >>> ls = LineString((0, 0), (1, 1))
>>> ls = LineString(Point(0, 0), Point(1, 1))
In addition, LineString objects may also be created by passing in a single sequence of coordinate or Point objects: >>> ls = LineString( ((0, 0), (1, 1)) )
>>> ls = LineString( [Point(0, 0), Point(1, 1)] )
Empty LineString objects may be instantiated by passing no arguments or an empty sequence. The following are equivalent: >>> ls = LineString()
>>> ls = LineString([])
closed
Returns whether or not this LineString is closed.
LinearRing
class LinearRing(*args, **kwargs)
LinearRing objects are constructed in the exact same way as LineString objects, however the coordinates must be closed, in other words, the first coordinates must be the same as the last coordinates. For example: >>> ls = LinearRing((0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1), (0, 0))
Notice that (0, 0) is the first and last coordinate – if they were not equal, an error would be raised.
is_counterclockwise
Returns whether this LinearRing is counterclockwise.
Polygon
class Polygon(*args, **kwargs)
Polygon objects may be instantiated by passing in parameters that represent the rings of the polygon. The parameters must either be LinearRing instances, or a sequence that may be used to construct a LinearRing: >>> ext_coords = ((0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1), (1, 0), (0, 0))
>>> int_coords = ((0.4, 0.4), (0.4, 0.6), (0.6, 0.6), (0.6, 0.4), (0.4, 0.4))
>>> poly = Polygon(ext_coords, int_coords)
>>> poly = Polygon(LinearRing(ext_coords), LinearRing(int_coords))
classmethod from_bbox(bbox)
Returns a polygon object from the given bounding-box, a 4-tuple comprising (xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax).
num_interior_rings
Returns the number of interior rings in this geometry.
Comparing Polygons Note that it is possible to compare Polygon objects directly with < or >, but as the comparison is made through Polygon’s LineString, it does not mean much (but is consistent and quick). You can always force the comparison with the area property: >>> if poly_1.area > poly_2.area:
>>> pass
Geometry Collections MultiPoint
class MultiPoint(*args, **kwargs)
MultiPoint objects may be instantiated by passing in Point objects as arguments, or a single sequence of Point objects: >>> mp = MultiPoint(Point(0, 0), Point(1, 1))
>>> mp = MultiPoint( (Point(0, 0), Point(1, 1)) )
MultiLineString
class MultiLineString(*args, **kwargs)
MultiLineString objects may be instantiated by passing in LineString objects as arguments, or a single sequence of LineString objects: >>> ls1 = LineString((0, 0), (1, 1))
>>> ls2 = LineString((2, 2), (3, 3))
>>> mls = MultiLineString(ls1, ls2)
>>> mls = MultiLineString([ls1, ls2])
merged
Returns a LineString representing the line merge of all the components in this MultiLineString.
closed
Returns True if and only if all elements are closed.
MultiPolygon
class MultiPolygon(*args, **kwargs)
MultiPolygon objects may be instantiated by passing Polygon objects as arguments, or a single sequence of Polygon objects: >>> p1 = Polygon( ((0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1), (0, 0)) )
>>> p2 = Polygon( ((1, 1), (1, 2), (2, 2), (1, 1)) )
>>> mp = MultiPolygon(p1, p2)
>>> mp = MultiPolygon([p1, p2])
GeometryCollection
class GeometryCollection(*args, **kwargs)
GeometryCollection objects may be instantiated by passing in other GEOSGeometry as arguments, or a single sequence of GEOSGeometry objects: >>> poly = Polygon( ((0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1), (0, 0)) )
>>> gc = GeometryCollection(Point(0, 0), MultiPoint(Point(0, 0), Point(1, 1)), poly)
>>> gc = GeometryCollection((Point(0, 0), MultiPoint(Point(0, 0), Point(1, 1)), poly))
Prepared Geometries In order to obtain a prepared geometry, access the GEOSGeometry.prepared property. Once you have a PreparedGeometry instance its spatial predicate methods, listed below, may be used with other GEOSGeometry objects. An operation with a prepared geometry can be orders of magnitude faster – the more complex the geometry that is prepared, the larger the speedup in the operation. For more information, please consult the GEOS wiki page on prepared geometries. For example: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point, Polygon
>>> poly = Polygon.from_bbox((0, 0, 5, 5))
>>> prep_poly = poly.prepared
>>> prep_poly.contains(Point(2.5, 2.5))
True
PreparedGeometry
class PreparedGeometry
All methods on PreparedGeometry take an other argument, which must be a GEOSGeometry instance.
contains(other)
contains_properly(other)
covers(other)
crosses(other)
disjoint(other)
intersects(other)
overlaps(other)
touches(other)
within(other)
Geometry Factories
fromfile(file_h)
Parameters:
file_h (a Python file object or a string path to the file) – input file that contains spatial data
Return type:
a GEOSGeometry corresponding to the spatial data in the file Example: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import fromfile
>>> g = fromfile('/home/bob/geom.wkt')
fromstr(string, srid=None)
Parameters:
string (str) – string that contains spatial data
srid (int) – spatial reference identifier
Return type:
a GEOSGeometry corresponding to the spatial data in the string fromstr(string, srid) is equivalent to GEOSGeometry(string, srid). Example: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import fromstr
>>> pnt = fromstr('POINT(-90.5 29.5)', srid=4326)
I/O Objects Reader Objects The reader I/O classes return a GEOSGeometry instance from the WKB and/or WKT input given to their read(geom) method.
class WKBReader
Example: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import WKBReader
>>> wkb_r = WKBReader()
>>> wkb_r.read('0101000000000000000000F03F000000000000F03F')
<Point object at 0x103a88910>
class WKTReader
Example: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import WKTReader
>>> wkt_r = WKTReader()
>>> wkt_r.read('POINT(1 1)')
<Point object at 0x103a88b50>
Writer Objects All writer objects have a write(geom) method that returns either the WKB or WKT of the given geometry. In addition, WKBWriter objects also have properties that may be used to change the byte order, and or include the SRID value (in other words, EWKB).
class WKBWriter(dim=2)
WKBWriter provides the most control over its output. By default it returns OGC-compliant WKB when its write method is called. However, it has properties that allow for the creation of EWKB, a superset of the WKB standard that includes additional information. See the WKBWriter.outdim documentation for more details about the dim argument.
write(geom)
Returns the WKB of the given geometry as a Python buffer object. Example: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point, WKBWriter
>>> pnt = Point(1, 1)
>>> wkb_w = WKBWriter()
>>> wkb_w.write(pnt)
<read-only buffer for 0x103a898f0, size -1, offset 0 at 0x103a89930>
write_hex(geom)
Returns WKB of the geometry in hexadecimal. Example: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point, WKBWriter
>>> pnt = Point(1, 1)
>>> wkb_w = WKBWriter()
>>> wkb_w.write_hex(pnt)
'0101000000000000000000F03F000000000000F03F'
byteorder
This property may be set to change the byte-order of the geometry representation.
Byteorder Value Description
0 Big Endian (e.g., compatible with RISC systems)
1 Little Endian (e.g., compatible with x86 systems) Example: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point, WKBWriter
>>> wkb_w = WKBWriter()
>>> pnt = Point(1, 1)
>>> wkb_w.write_hex(pnt)
'0101000000000000000000F03F000000000000F03F'
>>> wkb_w.byteorder = 0
'00000000013FF00000000000003FF0000000000000'
outdim
This property may be set to change the output dimension of the geometry representation. In other words, if you have a 3D geometry then set to 3 so that the Z value is included in the WKB.
Outdim Value Description
2 The default, output 2D WKB.
3 Output 3D WKB. Example: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point, WKBWriter
>>> wkb_w = WKBWriter()
>>> wkb_w.outdim
2
>>> pnt = Point(1, 1, 1)
>>> wkb_w.write_hex(pnt) # By default, no Z value included:
'0101000000000000000000F03F000000000000F03F'
>>> wkb_w.outdim = 3 # Tell writer to include Z values
>>> wkb_w.write_hex(pnt)
'0101000080000000000000F03F000000000000F03F000000000000F03F'
srid
Set this property with a boolean to indicate whether the SRID of the geometry should be included with the WKB representation. Example: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point, WKBWriter
>>> wkb_w = WKBWriter()
>>> pnt = Point(1, 1, srid=4326)
>>> wkb_w.write_hex(pnt) # By default, no SRID included:
'0101000000000000000000F03F000000000000F03F'
>>> wkb_w.srid = True # Tell writer to include SRID
>>> wkb_w.write_hex(pnt)
'0101000020E6100000000000000000F03F000000000000F03F'
class WKTWriter(dim=2, trim=False, precision=None)
This class allows outputting the WKT representation of a geometry. See the WKBWriter.outdim, trim, and precision attributes for details about the constructor arguments.
write(geom)
Returns the WKT of the given geometry. Example: >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point, WKTWriter
>>> pnt = Point(1, 1)
>>> wkt_w = WKTWriter()
>>> wkt_w.write(pnt)
'POINT (1.0000000000000000 1.0000000000000000)'
outdim
See WKBWriter.outdim.
trim
This property is used to enable or disable trimming of unnecessary decimals. >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point, WKTWriter
>>> pnt = Point(1, 1)
>>> wkt_w = WKTWriter()
>>> wkt_w.trim
False
>>> wkt_w.write(pnt)
'POINT (1.0000000000000000 1.0000000000000000)'
>>> wkt_w.trim = True
>>> wkt_w.write(pnt)
'POINT (1 1)'
precision
This property controls the rounding precision of coordinates; if set to None rounding is disabled. >>> from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point, WKTWriter
>>> pnt = Point(1.44, 1.66)
>>> wkt_w = WKTWriter()
>>> print(wkt_w.precision)
None
>>> wkt_w.write(pnt)
'POINT (1.4399999999999999 1.6599999999999999)'
>>> wkt_w.precision = 0
>>> wkt_w.write(pnt)
'POINT (1 2)'
>>> wkt_w.precision = 1
>>> wkt_w.write(pnt)
'POINT (1.4 1.7)'
Footnotes
[1]
See PostGIS EWKB, EWKT and Canonical Forms, PostGIS documentation at Ch. 4.1.2.
Settings GEOS_LIBRARY_PATH A string specifying the location of the GEOS C library. Typically, this setting is only used if the GEOS C library is in a non-standard location (e.g., /home/bob/lib/libgeos_c.so). Note The setting must be the full path to the C shared library; in other words you want to use libgeos_c.so, not libgeos.so. Exceptions
exception GEOSException
The base GEOS exception, indicates a GEOS-related error. | django.ref.contrib.gis.geos#std:setting-GEOS_LIBRARY_PATH |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-INTERNAL_IPS |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-LANGUAGE_CODE |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-LANGUAGES |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-LOCALE_PATHS |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-LOGGING |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-LOGIN_URL |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-MANAGERS |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-MEDIA_URL |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-MESSAGE_LEVEL |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-MESSAGE_STORAGE |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-MIDDLEWARE |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-MIGRATION_MODULES |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-MONTH_DAY_FORMAT |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-NUMBER_GROUPING |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-PASSWORD_HASHERS |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-PREPEND_WWW |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-ROOT_URLCONF |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SECRET_KEY |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SECURE_SSL_HOST |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SERIALIZATION_MODULES |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SERVER_EMAIL |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SESSION_COOKIE_AGE |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SESSION_COOKIE_NAME |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SESSION_COOKIE_PATH |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SESSION_ENGINE |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SESSION_FILE_PATH |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SESSION_SERIALIZER |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SHORT_DATE_FORMAT |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SIGNING_BACKEND |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-SITE_ID |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-STATIC_ROOT |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-STATIC_URL |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-STATICFILES_FINDERS |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-STATICFILES_STORAGE |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-THOUSAND_SEPARATOR |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-TIME_FORMAT |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-USE_I18N |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-USE_L10N |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-USE_TZ |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
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Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-X_FRAME_OPTIONS |
Settings Core Settings Auth Messages Sessions Sites Static Files Core Settings Topical Index Warning Be careful when you override settings, especially when the default value is a non-empty list or dictionary, such as STATICFILES_FINDERS. Make sure you keep the components required by the features of Django you wish to use. Core Settings Here’s a list of settings available in Django core and their default values. Settings provided by contrib apps are listed below, followed by a topical index of the core settings. For introductory material, see the settings topic guide. ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary mapping "app_label.model_name" strings to functions that take a model object and return its URL. This is a way of inserting or overriding get_absolute_url() methods on a per-installation basis. Example: ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES = {
'blogs.blog': lambda o: "/blogs/%s/" % o.slug,
'news.story': lambda o: "/stories/%s/%s/" % (o.pub_year, o.slug),
}
The model name used in this setting should be all lowercase, regardless of the case of the actual model class name. ADMINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of all the people who get code error notifications. When DEBUG=False and AdminEmailHandler is configured in LOGGING (done by default), Django emails these people the details of exceptions raised in the request/response cycle. Each item in the list should be a tuple of (Full name, email address). Example: [('John', '[email protected]'), ('Mary', '[email protected]')]
ALLOWED_HOSTS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. Values in this list can be fully qualified names (e.g. 'www.example.com'), in which case they will be matched against the request’s Host header exactly (case-insensitive, not including port). A value beginning with a period can be used as a subdomain wildcard: '.example.com' will match example.com, www.example.com, and any other subdomain of example.com. A value of '*' will match anything; in this case you are responsible to provide your own validation of the Host header (perhaps in a middleware; if so this middleware must be listed first in MIDDLEWARE). Django also allows the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of any entries. Some browsers include a trailing dot in the Host header which Django strips when performing host validation. If the Host header (or X-Forwarded-Host if USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST is enabled) does not match any value in this list, the django.http.HttpRequest.get_host() method will raise SuspiciousOperation. When DEBUG is True and ALLOWED_HOSTS is empty, the host is validated against ['.localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. ALLOWED_HOSTS is also checked when running tests. This validation only applies via get_host(); if your code accesses the Host header directly from request.META you are bypassing this security protection. APPEND_SLASH Default: True When set to True, if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended. Note that the redirect may cause any data submitted in a POST request to be lost. The APPEND_SLASH setting is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also PREPEND_WWW. CACHES Default: {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
}
}
A dictionary containing the settings for all caches to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents maps cache aliases to a dictionary containing the options for an individual cache. The CACHES setting must configure a default cache; any number of additional caches may also be specified. If you are using a cache backend other than the local memory cache, or you need to define multiple caches, other options will be required. The following cache options are available. BACKEND Default: '' (Empty string) The cache backend to use. The built-in cache backends are: 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache' 'django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache' You can use a cache backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path of a cache backend class (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever.WhateverCache). Changed in Django 3.2: The PyMemcacheCache backend was added. Changed in Django 4.0: The RedisCache backend was added. KEY_FUNCTION A string containing a dotted path to a function (or any callable) that defines how to compose a prefix, version and key into a final cache key. The default implementation is equivalent to the function: def make_key(key, key_prefix, version):
return ':'.join([key_prefix, str(version), key])
You may use any key function you want, as long as it has the same argument signature. See the cache documentation for more information. KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string that will be automatically included (prepended by default) to all cache keys used by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. LOCATION Default: '' (Empty string) The location of the cache to use. This might be the directory for a file system cache, a host and port for a memcache server, or an identifying name for a local memory cache. e.g.: CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
}
}
OPTIONS Default: None Extra parameters to pass to the cache backend. Available parameters vary depending on your cache backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the cache arguments documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. TIMEOUT Default: 300 The number of seconds before a cache entry is considered stale. If the value of this setting is None, cache entries will not expire. A value of 0 causes keys to immediately expire (effectively “don’t cache”). VERSION Default: 1 The default version number for cache keys generated by the Django server. See the cache documentation for more information. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS Default: 'default' The cache connection to use for the cache middleware. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX Default: '' (Empty string) A string which will be prefixed to the cache keys generated by the cache middleware. This prefix is combined with the KEY_PREFIX setting; it does not replace it. See Django’s cache framework. CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Default: 600 The default number of seconds to cache a page for the cache middleware. See Django’s cache framework. CSRF_COOKIE_AGE Default: 31449600 (approximately 1 year, in seconds) The age of CSRF cookies, in seconds. The reason for setting a long-lived expiration time is to avoid problems in the case of a user closing a browser or bookmarking a page and then loading that page from a browser cache. Without persistent cookies, the form submission would fail in this case. Some browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) can disallow the use of persistent cookies or can have the indexes to the cookie jar corrupted on disk, thereby causing CSRF protection checks to (sometimes intermittently) fail. Change this setting to None to use session-based CSRF cookies, which keep the cookies in-memory instead of on persistent storage. CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to be used when setting the CSRF cookie. This can be useful for easily allowing cross-subdomain requests to be excluded from the normal cross site request forgery protection. It should be set to a string such as ".example.com" to allow a POST request from a form on one subdomain to be accepted by a view served from another subdomain. Please note that the presence of this setting does not imply that Django’s CSRF protection is safe from cross-subdomain attacks by default - please see the CSRF limitations section. CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the CSRF cookie. Designating the CSRF cookie as HttpOnly doesn’t offer any practical protection because CSRF is only to protect against cross-domain attacks. If an attacker can read the cookie via JavaScript, they’re already on the same domain as far as the browser knows, so they can do anything they like anyway. (XSS is a much bigger hole than CSRF.) Although the setting offers little practical benefit, it’s sometimes required by security auditors. If you enable this and need to send the value of the CSRF token with an AJAX request, your JavaScript must pull the value from a hidden CSRF token form input instead of from the cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. CSRF_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'csrftoken' The name of the cookie to use for the CSRF authentication token. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Cross Site Request Forgery protection. CSRF_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the CSRF cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own CSRF cookie. CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the CSRF cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the CSRF cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent with an HTTPS connection. CSRF_USE_SESSIONS Default: False Whether to store the CSRF token in the user’s session instead of in a cookie. It requires the use of django.contrib.sessions. Storing the CSRF token in a cookie (Django’s default) is safe, but storing it in the session is common practice in other web frameworks and therefore sometimes demanded by security auditors. Since the default error views require the CSRF token, SessionMiddleware must appear in MIDDLEWARE before any middleware that may raise an exception to trigger an error view (such as PermissionDenied) if you’re using CSRF_USE_SESSIONS. See Middleware ordering. CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW Default: 'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure' A dotted path to the view function to be used when an incoming request is rejected by the CSRF protection. The function should have this signature: def csrf_failure(request, reason=""):
...
where reason is a short message (intended for developers or logging, not for end users) indicating the reason the request was rejected. It should return an HttpResponseForbidden. django.views.csrf.csrf_failure() accepts an additional template_name parameter that defaults to '403_csrf.html'. If a template with that name exists, it will be used to render the page. CSRF_HEADER_NAME Default: 'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN' The name of the request header used for CSRF authentication. As with other HTTP headers in request.META, the header name received from the server is normalized by converting all characters to uppercase, replacing any hyphens with underscores, and adding an 'HTTP_' prefix to the name. For example, if your client sends a 'X-XSRF-TOKEN' header, the setting should be 'HTTP_X_XSRF_TOKEN'. CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests (e.g. POST). For requests that include the Origin header, Django’s CSRF protection requires that header match the origin present in the Host header. For a secure unsafe request that doesn’t include the Origin header, the request must have a Referer header that matches the origin present in the Host header. These checks prevent, for example, a POST request from subdomain.example.com from succeeding against api.example.com. If you need cross-origin unsafe requests, continuing the example, add 'https://subdomain.example.com' to this list (and/or http://... if requests originate from an insecure page). The setting also supports subdomains, so you could add 'https://*.example.com', for example, to allow access from all subdomains of example.com. Changed in Django 4.0: The values in older versions must only include the hostname (possibly with a leading dot) and not the scheme or an asterisk. Also, Origin header checking isn’t performed in older versions. DATABASES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary containing the settings for all databases to be used with Django. It is a nested dictionary whose contents map a database alias to a dictionary containing the options for an individual database. The DATABASES setting must configure a default database; any number of additional databases may also be specified. The simplest possible settings file is for a single-database setup using SQLite. This can be configured using the following: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
}
}
When connecting to other database backends, such as MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, additional connection parameters will be required. See the ENGINE setting below on how to specify other database types. This example is for PostgreSQL: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
The following inner options that may be required for more complex configurations are available: ATOMIC_REQUESTS Default: False Set this to True to wrap each view in a transaction on this database. See Tying transactions to HTTP requests. AUTOCOMMIT Default: True Set this to False if you want to disable Django’s transaction management and implement your own. ENGINE Default: '' (Empty string) The database backend to use. The built-in database backends are: 'django.db.backends.postgresql' 'django.db.backends.mysql' 'django.db.backends.sqlite3' 'django.db.backends.oracle' You can use a database backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting ENGINE to a fully-qualified path (i.e. mypackage.backends.whatever). HOST Default: '' (Empty string) Which host to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means localhost. Not used with SQLite. If this value starts with a forward slash ('/') and you’re using MySQL, MySQL will connect via a Unix socket to the specified socket. For example: "HOST": '/var/run/mysql'
If you’re using MySQL and this value doesn’t start with a forward slash, then this value is assumed to be the host. If you’re using PostgreSQL, by default (empty HOST), the connection to the database is done through UNIX domain sockets (‘local’ lines in pg_hba.conf). If your UNIX domain socket is not in the standard location, use the same value of unix_socket_directory from postgresql.conf. If you want to connect through TCP sockets, set HOST to ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ (‘host’ lines in pg_hba.conf). On Windows, you should always define HOST, as UNIX domain sockets are not available. NAME Default: '' (Empty string) The name of the database to use. For SQLite, it’s the full path to the database file. When specifying the path, always use forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. C:/homes/user/mysite/sqlite3.db). CONN_MAX_AGE Default: 0 The lifetime of a database connection, as an integer of seconds. Use 0 to close database connections at the end of each request — Django’s historical behavior — and None for unlimited persistent connections. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dictionary) Extra parameters to use when connecting to the database. Available parameters vary depending on your database backend. Some information on available parameters can be found in the Database Backends documentation. For more information, consult your backend module’s own documentation. PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) The password to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. PORT Default: '' (Empty string) The port to use when connecting to the database. An empty string means the default port. Not used with SQLite. TIME_ZONE Default: None A string representing the time zone for this database connection or None. This inner option of the DATABASES setting accepts the same values as the general TIME_ZONE setting. When USE_TZ is True and this option is set, reading datetimes from the database returns aware datetimes in this time zone instead of UTC. When USE_TZ is False, it is an error to set this option.
If the database backend doesn’t support time zones (e.g. SQLite, MySQL, Oracle), Django reads and writes datetimes in local time according to this option if it is set and in UTC if it isn’t. Changing the connection time zone changes how datetimes are read from and written to the database. If Django manages the database and you don’t have a strong reason to do otherwise, you should leave this option unset. It’s best to store datetimes in UTC because it avoids ambiguous or nonexistent datetimes during daylight saving time changes. Also, receiving datetimes in UTC keeps datetime arithmetic simple — there’s no need to consider potential offset changes over a DST transition. If you’re connecting to a third-party database that stores datetimes in a local time rather than UTC, then you must set this option to the appropriate time zone. Likewise, if Django manages the database but third-party systems connect to the same database and expect to find datetimes in local time, then you must set this option.
If the database backend supports time zones (e.g. PostgreSQL), the TIME_ZONE option is very rarely needed. It can be changed at any time; the database takes care of converting datetimes to the desired time zone. Setting the time zone of the database connection may be useful for running raw SQL queries involving date/time functions provided by the database, such as date_trunc, because their results depend on the time zone. However, this has a downside: receiving all datetimes in local time makes datetime arithmetic more tricky — you must account for possible offset changes over DST transitions. Consider converting to local time explicitly with AT TIME ZONE in raw SQL queries instead of setting the TIME_ZONE option. DISABLE_SERVER_SIDE_CURSORS Default: False Set this to True if you want to disable the use of server-side cursors with QuerySet.iterator(). Transaction pooling and server-side cursors describes the use case. This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. USER Default: '' (Empty string) The username to use when connecting to the database. Not used with SQLite. TEST Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary of settings for test databases; for more details about the creation and use of test databases, see The test database. Here’s an example with a test database configuration: DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'TEST': {
'NAME': 'mytestdatabase',
},
},
}
The following keys in the TEST dictionary are available: CHARSET Default: None The character set encoding used to create the test database. The value of this string is passed directly through to the database, so its format is backend-specific. Supported by the PostgreSQL (postgresql) and MySQL (mysql) backends. COLLATION Default: None The collation order to use when creating the test database. This value is passed directly to the backend, so its format is backend-specific. Only supported for the mysql backend (see the MySQL manual for details). DEPENDENCIES Default: ['default'], for all databases other than default, which has no dependencies. The creation-order dependencies of the database. See the documentation on controlling the creation order of test databases for details. MIGRATE Default: True When set to False, migrations won’t run when creating the test database. This is similar to setting None as a value in MIGRATION_MODULES, but for all apps. MIRROR Default: None The alias of the database that this database should mirror during testing. This setting exists to allow for testing of primary/replica (referred to as master/slave by some databases) configurations of multiple databases. See the documentation on testing primary/replica configurations for details. NAME Default: None The name of database to use when running the test suite. If the default value (None) is used with the SQLite database engine, the tests will use a memory resident database. For all other database engines the test database will use the name 'test_' + DATABASE_NAME. See The test database. SERIALIZE Boolean value to control whether or not the default test runner serializes the database into an in-memory JSON string before running tests (used to restore the database state between tests if you don’t have transactions). You can set this to False to speed up creation time if you don’t have any test classes with serialized_rollback=True. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated as it can be inferred from the databases with the serialized_rollback option enabled. TEMPLATE This is a PostgreSQL-specific setting. The name of a template (e.g. 'template0') from which to create the test database. CREATE_DB Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test tablespaces won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests or dropped at the end. CREATE_USER Default: True This is an Oracle-specific setting. If it is set to False, the test user won’t be automatically created at the beginning of the tests and dropped at the end. USER Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The username to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. PASSWORD Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The password to use when connecting to the Oracle database that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will generate a random password. ORACLE_MANAGED_FILES Default: False This is an Oracle-specific setting. If set to True, Oracle Managed Files (OMF) tablespaces will be used. DATAFILE and DATAFILE_TMP will be ignored. TBLSPACE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER. TBLSPACE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the temporary tablespace that will be used when running tests. If not provided, Django will use 'test_' + USER + '_temp'. DATAFILE Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_TMP Default: None This is an Oracle-specific setting. The name of the datafile to use for the TBLSPACE_TMP. If not provided, Django will use TBLSPACE_TMP + '.dbf'. DATAFILE_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_TMP_MAXSIZE Default: '500M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The maximum size that the DATAFILE_TMP is allowed to grow to. DATAFILE_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE. DATAFILE_TMP_SIZE Default: '50M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The initial size of the DATAFILE_TMP. DATAFILE_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE is extended when more space is required. DATAFILE_TMP_EXTSIZE Default: '25M' This is an Oracle-specific setting. The amount by which the DATAFILE_TMP is extended when more space is required. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size in bytes that a request body may be before a SuspiciousOperation (RequestDataTooBig) is raised. The check is done when accessing request.body or request.POST and is calculated against the total request size excluding any file upload data. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive unusually large form posts should tune this setting. The amount of request data is correlated to the amount of memory needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. See also FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS Default: 1000 The maximum number of parameters that may be received via GET or POST before a SuspiciousOperation (TooManyFields) is raised. You can set this to None to disable the check. Applications that are expected to receive an unusually large number of form fields should tune this setting. The number of request parameters is correlated to the amount of time needed to process the request and populate the GET and POST dictionaries. Large requests could be used as a denial-of-service attack vector if left unchecked. Since web servers don’t typically perform deep request inspection, it’s not possible to perform a similar check at that level. DATABASE_ROUTERS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of routers that will be used to determine which database to use when performing a database query. See the documentation on automatic database routing in multi database configurations. DATE_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003) The default formatting to use for displaying date fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%Y', '%m/%d/%y', # '2006-10-25', '10/25/2006', '10/25/06'
'%b %d %Y', '%b %d, %Y', # 'Oct 25 2006', 'Oct 25, 2006'
'%d %b %Y', '%d %b, %Y', # '25 Oct 2006', '25 Oct, 2006'
'%B %d %Y', '%B %d, %Y', # 'October 25 2006', 'October 25, 2006'
'%d %B %Y', '%d %B, %Y', # '25 October 2006', '25 October, 2006'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a date field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'N j, Y, P' (e.g. Feb. 4, 2003, 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying datetime fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f', # '2006-10-25 14:30:59.000200'
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M', # '2006-10-25 14:30'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/2006 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', # '10/25/2006 14:30'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S', # '10/25/06 14:30:59'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f', # '10/25/06 14:30:59.000200'
'%m/%d/%y %H:%M', # '10/25/06 14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a datetime field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. Date-only formats are not included as datetime fields will automatically try DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in last resort. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS. DEBUG Default: False A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. Never deploy a site into production with DEBUG turned on. One of the main features of debug mode is the display of detailed error pages. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py). As a security measure, Django will not include settings that might be sensitive, such as SECRET_KEY. Specifically, it will exclude any setting whose name includes any of the following: 'API' 'KEY' 'PASS' 'SECRET' 'SIGNATURE' 'TOKEN' Note that these are partial matches. 'PASS' will also match PASSWORD, just as 'TOKEN' will also match TOKENIZED and so on. Still, note that there are always going to be sections of your debug output that are inappropriate for public consumption. File paths, configuration options and the like all give attackers extra information about your server. It is also important to remember that when running with DEBUG turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful when you’re debugging, but it’ll rapidly consume memory on a production server. Finally, if DEBUG is False, you also need to properly set the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting. Failing to do so will result in all requests being returned as “Bad Request (400)”. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets DEBUG = True for convenience. DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Default: False If set to True, Django’s exception handling of view functions (handler500, or the debug view if DEBUG is True) and logging of 500 responses (django.request) is skipped and exceptions propagate upward. This can be useful for some test setups. It shouldn’t be used on a live site unless you want your web server (instead of Django) to generate “Internal Server Error” responses. In that case, make sure your server doesn’t show the stack trace or other sensitive information in the response. DECIMAL_SEPARATOR Default: '.' (Dot) Default decimal separator used when formatting decimal numbers. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD New in Django 3.2. Default: 'django.db.models.AutoField' Default primary key field type to use for models that don’t have a field with primary_key=True. Migrating auto-created through tables The value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD will be respected when creating new auto-created through tables for many-to-many relationships. Unfortunately, the primary keys of existing auto-created through tables cannot currently be updated by the migrations framework. This means that if you switch the value of DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD and then generate migrations, the primary keys of the related models will be updated, as will the foreign keys from the through table, but the primary key of the auto-created through table will not be migrated. In order to address this, you should add a RunSQL operation to your migrations to perform the required ALTER TABLE step. You can check the existing table name through sqlmigrate, dbshell, or with the field’s remote_field.through._meta.db_table property. Explicitly defined through models are already handled by the migrations system. Allowing automatic migrations for the primary key of existing auto-created through tables may be implemented at a later date. DEFAULT_CHARSET Default: 'utf-8' Default charset to use for all HttpResponse objects, if a MIME type isn’t manually specified. Used when constructing the Content-Type header. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER Default: 'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter' Default exception reporter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Custom error reports. DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER Default: 'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter' Default exception reporter filter class to be used if none has been assigned to the HttpRequest instance yet. See Filtering error reports. DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE Default: 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage' Default file storage class to be used for any file-related operations that don’t specify a particular storage system. See Managing files. DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL Default: 'webmaster@localhost' Default email address to use for various automated correspondence from the site manager(s). This doesn’t include error messages sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS; for that, see SERVER_EMAIL. DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for indexes on fields that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Default: '' (Empty string) Default tablespace to use for models that don’t specify one, if the backend supports it (see Tablespaces). DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects representing User-Agent strings that are not allowed to visit any page, systemwide. Use this for bots/crawlers. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). EMAIL_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' The backend to use for sending emails. For the list of available backends see Sending email. EMAIL_FILE_PATH Default: Not defined The directory used by the file email backend to store output files. EMAIL_HOST Default: 'localhost' The host to use for sending email. See also EMAIL_PORT. EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD Default: '' (Empty string) Password to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. This setting is used in conjunction with EMAIL_HOST_USER when authenticating to the SMTP server. If either of these settings is empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_USER. EMAIL_HOST_USER Default: '' (Empty string) Username to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. If empty, Django won’t attempt authentication. See also EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD. EMAIL_PORT Default: 25 Port to use for the SMTP server defined in EMAIL_HOST. EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX Default: '[Django] ' Subject-line prefix for email messages sent with django.core.mail.mail_admins or django.core.mail.mail_managers. You’ll probably want to include the trailing space. EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME Default: False Whether to send the SMTP Date header of email messages in the local time zone (True) or in UTC (False). EMAIL_USE_TLS Default: False Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. This is used for explicit TLS connections, generally on port 587. If you are experiencing hanging connections, see the implicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_SSL. EMAIL_USE_SSL Default: False Whether to use an implicit TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server. In most email documentation this type of TLS connection is referred to as SSL. It is generally used on port 465. If you are experiencing problems, see the explicit TLS setting EMAIL_USE_TLS. Note that EMAIL_USE_TLS/EMAIL_USE_SSL are mutually exclusive, so only set one of those settings to True. EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted certificate chain file to use for the SSL connection. EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE Default: None If EMAIL_USE_SSL or EMAIL_USE_TLS is True, you can optionally specify the path to a PEM-formatted private key file to use for the SSL connection. Note that setting EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE and EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE doesn’t result in any certificate checking. They’re passed to the underlying SSL connection. Please refer to the documentation of Python’s ssl.wrap_socket() function for details on how the certificate chain file and private key file are handled. EMAIL_TIMEOUT Default: None Specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt. FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS Default: [
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler',
]
A list of handlers to use for uploading. Changing this setting allows complete customization – even replacement – of Django’s upload process. See Managing files for details. FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE Default: 2621440 (i.e. 2.5 MB). The maximum size (in bytes) that an upload will be before it gets streamed to the file system. See Managing files for details. See also DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE. FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS Default: None The numeric mode to apply to directories created in the process of uploading files. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static directories when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. This value mirrors the functionality and caveats of the FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS setting. FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS Default: 0o644 The numeric mode (i.e. 0o644) to set newly uploaded files to. For more information about what these modes mean, see the documentation for os.chmod(). If None, you’ll get operating-system dependent behavior. On most platforms, temporary files will have a mode of 0o600, and files saved from memory will be saved using the system’s standard umask. For security reasons, these permissions aren’t applied to the temporary files that are stored in FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR. This setting also determines the default permissions for collected static files when using the collectstatic management command. See collectstatic for details on overriding it. Warning Always prefix the mode with 0o . If you’re not familiar with file modes, please note that the 0o prefix is very important: it indicates an octal number, which is the way that modes must be specified. If you try to use 644, you’ll get totally incorrect behavior. FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR Default: None The directory to store data to (typically files larger than FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE) temporarily while uploading files. If None, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the operating system. For example, this will default to /tmp on *nix-style operating systems. See Managing files for details. FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK Default: 0 (Sunday) A number representing the first day of the week. This is especially useful when displaying a calendar. This value is only used when not using format internationalization, or when a format cannot be found for the current locale. The value must be an integer from 0 to 6, where 0 means Sunday, 1 means Monday and so on. FIXTURE_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) List of directories searched for fixture files, in addition to the fixtures directory of each application, in search order. Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows. See Providing data with fixtures and Fixture loading. FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME Default: None If not None, this will be used as the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable in any HTTP request. This setting can be used to override the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME, which may be a rewritten version of the preferred value or not supplied at all. It is also used by django.setup() to set the URL resolver script prefix outside of the request/response cycle (e.g. in management commands and standalone scripts) to generate correct URLs when SCRIPT_NAME is not /. FORM_RENDERER Default: 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates' The class that renders forms and form widgets. It must implement the low-level render API. Included form renderers are:
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
'django.forms.renderers.Jinja2'
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH Default: None A full Python path to a Python package that contains custom format definitions for project locales. If not None, Django will check for a formats.py file, under the directory named as the current locale, and will use the formats defined in this file. For example, if FORMAT_MODULE_PATH is set to mysite.formats, and current language is en (English), Django will expect a directory tree like: mysite/
formats/
__init__.py
en/
__init__.py
formats.py
You can also set this setting to a list of Python paths, for example: FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = [
'mysite.formats',
'some_app.formats',
]
When Django searches for a certain format, it will go through all given Python paths until it finds a module that actually defines the given format. This means that formats defined in packages farther up in the list will take precedence over the same formats in packages farther down. Available formats are: DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
DATETIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT IGNORABLE_404_URLS Default: [] (Empty list) List of compiled regular expression objects describing URLs that should be ignored when reporting HTTP 404 errors via email (see How to manage error reporting). Regular expressions are matched against request's full paths (including query string, if any). Use this if your site does not provide a commonly requested file such as favicon.ico or robots.txt. This is only used if BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled (see Middleware). INSTALLED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django installation. Each string should be a dotted Python path to: an application configuration class (preferred), or a package containing an application. Learn more about application configurations. Use the application registry for introspection Your code should never access INSTALLED_APPS directly. Use django.apps.apps instead. Application names and labels must be unique in INSTALLED_APPS Application names — the dotted Python path to the application package — must be unique. There is no way to include the same application twice, short of duplicating its code under another name. Application labels — by default the final part of the name — must be unique too. For example, you can’t include both django.contrib.auth and myproject.auth. However, you can relabel an application with a custom configuration that defines a different label. These rules apply regardless of whether INSTALLED_APPS references application configuration classes or application packages. When several applications provide different versions of the same resource (template, static file, management command, translation), the application listed first in INSTALLED_APPS has precedence. INTERNAL_IPS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of IP addresses, as strings, that: Allow the debug() context processor to add some variables to the template context. Can use the admindocs bookmarklets even if not logged in as a staff user. Are marked as “internal” (as opposed to “EXTERNAL”) in AdminEmailHandler emails. LANGUAGE_CODE Default: 'en-us' A string representing the language code for this installation. This should be in standard language ID format. For example, U.S. English is "en-us". See also the list of language identifiers and Internationalization and localization. USE_I18N must be active for this setting to have any effect. It serves two purposes: If the locale middleware isn’t in use, it decides which translation is served to all users. If the locale middleware is active, it provides a fallback language in case the user’s preferred language can’t be determined or is not supported by the website. It also provides the fallback translation when a translation for a given literal doesn’t exist for the user’s preferred language. See How Django discovers language preference for more details. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE Default: None (expires at browser close) The age of the language cookie, in seconds. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for the language cookie. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies that have the old domain will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting) and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the old one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: False Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the language cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the language cookie. See SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY for details on HttpOnly. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'django_language' The name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). See Internationalization and localization. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the language cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be a parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths and each instance will only see its own language cookie. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to use a deeper path than it previously used, existing user cookies that have the old path will not be updated. This will result in site users being unable to switch the language as long as these cookies persist. The only safe and reliable option to perform the switch is to change the language cookie name permanently (via the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting), and to add a middleware that copies the value from the old cookie to a new one and then deletes the one. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: None The value of the SameSite flag on the language cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests. See SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE for details about SameSite. LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the language cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. LANGUAGES Default: A list of all available languages. This list is continually growing and including a copy here would inevitably become rapidly out of date. You can see the current list of translated languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list is a list of two-tuples in the format (language code, language name) – for example, ('ja', 'Japanese'). This specifies which languages are available for language selection. See Internationalization and localization. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, you can mark the language names as translation strings using the gettext_lazy() function. Here’s a sample settings file: from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
LANGUAGES = [
('de', _('German')),
('en', _('English')),
]
LANGUAGES_BIDI Default: A list of all language codes that are written right-to-left. You can see the current list of these languages by looking in django/conf/global_settings.py. The list contains language codes for languages that are written right-to-left. Generally, the default value should suffice. Only set this setting if you want to restrict language selection to a subset of the Django-provided languages. If you define a custom LANGUAGES setting, the list of bidirectional languages may contain language codes which are not enabled on a given site. LOCALE_PATHS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of directories where Django looks for translation files. See How Django discovers translations. Example: LOCALE_PATHS = [
'/home/www/project/common_files/locale',
'/var/local/translations/locale',
]
Django will look within each of these paths for the <locale_code>/LC_MESSAGES directories containing the actual translation files. LOGGING Default: A logging configuration dictionary. A data structure containing configuration information. The contents of this data structure will be passed as the argument to the configuration method described in LOGGING_CONFIG. Among other things, the default logging configuration passes HTTP 500 server errors to an email log handler when DEBUG is False. See also Configuring logging. You can see the default logging configuration by looking in django/utils/log.py. LOGGING_CONFIG Default: 'logging.config.dictConfig' A path to a callable that will be used to configure logging in the Django project. Points at an instance of Python’s dictConfig configuration method by default. If you set LOGGING_CONFIG to None, the logging configuration process will be skipped. MANAGERS Default: [] (Empty list) A list in the same format as ADMINS that specifies who should get broken link notifications when BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware is enabled. MEDIA_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/" See also MEDIA_URL. Warning MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT must have different values. Before STATIC_ROOT was introduced, it was common to rely or fallback on MEDIA_ROOT to also serve static files; however, since this can have serious security implications, there is a validation check to prevent it. MEDIA_URL Default: '' (Empty string) URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT, used for managing stored files. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You will need to configure these files to be served in both development and production environments. If you want to use {{ MEDIA_URL }} in your templates, add 'django.template.context_processors.media' in the 'context_processors' option of TEMPLATES. Example: "http://media.example.com/" Warning There are security risks if you are accepting uploaded content from untrusted users! See the security guide’s topic on User-uploaded content for mitigation details. Warning MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL must have different values. See MEDIA_ROOT for more details. Note If MEDIA_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. MIDDLEWARE Default: None A list of middleware to use. See Middleware. MIGRATION_MODULES Default: {} (Empty dictionary) A dictionary specifying the package where migration modules can be found on a per-app basis. The default value of this setting is an empty dictionary, but the default package name for migration modules is migrations. Example: {'blog': 'blog.db_migrations'}
In this case, migrations pertaining to the blog app will be contained in the blog.db_migrations package. If you provide the app_label argument, makemigrations will automatically create the package if it doesn’t already exist. When you supply None as a value for an app, Django will consider the app as an app without migrations regardless of an existing migrations submodule. This can be used, for example, in a test settings file to skip migrations while testing (tables will still be created for the apps’ models). To disable migrations for all apps during tests, you can set the MIGRATE to False instead. If MIGRATION_MODULES is used in your general project settings, remember to use the migrate --run-syncdb option if you want to create tables for the app. MONTH_DAY_FORMAT Default: 'F j' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the month and day are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given day displays the day and month. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 1,” whereas Spanish might say “1 Enero.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT. NUMBER_GROUPING Default: 0 Number of digits grouped together on the integer part of a number. Common use is to display a thousand separator. If this setting is 0, then no grouping will be applied to the number. If this setting is greater than 0, then THOUSAND_SEPARATOR will be used as the separator between those groups. Some locales use non-uniform digit grouping, e.g. 10,00,00,000 in en_IN. For this case, you can provide a sequence with the number of digit group sizes to be applied. The first number defines the size of the group preceding the decimal delimiter, and each number that follows defines the size of preceding groups. If the sequence is terminated with -1, no further grouping is performed. If the sequence terminates with a 0, the last group size is used for the remainder of the number. Example tuple for en_IN: NUMBER_GROUPING = (3, 2, 0)
Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, THOUSAND_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. PREPEND_WWW Default: False Whether to prepend the “www.” subdomain to URLs that don’t have it. This is only used if CommonMiddleware is installed (see Middleware). See also APPEND_SLASH. ROOT_URLCONF Default: Not defined A string representing the full Python import path to your root URLconf, for example "mydjangoapps.urls". Can be overridden on a per-request basis by setting the attribute urlconf on the incoming HttpRequest object. See How Django processes a request for details. SECRET_KEY Default: '' (Empty string) A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value. django-admin startproject automatically adds a randomly-generated SECRET_KEY to each new project. Uses of the key shouldn’t assume that it’s text or bytes. Every use should go through force_str() or force_bytes() to convert it to the desired type. Django will refuse to start if SECRET_KEY is not set. Warning Keep this value secret. Running Django with a known SECRET_KEY defeats many of Django’s security protections, and can lead to privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities. The secret key is used for: All sessions if you are using any other session backend than django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache, or are using the default get_session_auth_hash(). All messages if you are using CookieStorage or FallbackStorage. All PasswordResetView tokens. Any usage of cryptographic signing, unless a different key is provided. If you rotate your secret key, all of the above will be invalidated. Secret keys are not used for passwords of users and key rotation will not affect them. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject creates a unique SECRET_KEY for convenience. SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF Default: True If True, the SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header on all responses that do not already have it. SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY New in Django 4.0. Default: 'same-origin' Unless set to None, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Cross-Origin Opener Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the includeSubDomains directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for the value of SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware adds the preload directive to the HTTP Strict Transport Security header. It has no effect unless SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS is set to a non-zero value. SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS Default: 0 If set to a non-zero integer value, the SecurityMiddleware sets the HTTP Strict Transport Security header on all responses that do not already have it. Warning Setting this incorrectly can irreversibly (for some time) break your site. Read the HTTP Strict Transport Security documentation first. SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER Default: None A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object’s is_secure() method. By default, is_secure() determines if a request is secure by confirming that a requested URL uses https://. This method is important for Django’s CSRF protection, and it may be used by your own code or third-party apps. If your Django app is behind a proxy, though, the proxy may be “swallowing” whether the original request uses HTTPS or not. If there is a non-HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return False – even for requests that were made via HTTPS by the end user. In contrast, if there is an HTTPS connection between the proxy and Django then is_secure() would always return True – even for requests that were made originally via HTTP. In this situation, configure your proxy to set a custom HTTP header that tells Django whether the request came in via HTTPS, and set SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER so that Django knows what header to look for. Set a tuple with two elements – the name of the header to look for and the required value. For example: SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
This tells Django to trust the X-Forwarded-Proto header that comes from our proxy, and any time its value is 'https', then the request is guaranteed to be secure (i.e., it originally came in via HTTPS). You should only set this setting if you control your proxy or have some other guarantee that it sets/strips this header appropriately. Note that the header needs to be in the format as used by request.META – all caps and likely starting with HTTP_. (Remember, Django automatically adds 'HTTP_' to the start of x-header names before making the header available in request.META.) Warning Modifying this setting can compromise your site’s security. Ensure you fully understand your setup before changing it. Make sure ALL of the following are true before setting this (assuming the values from the example above): Your Django app is behind a proxy. Your proxy strips the X-Forwarded-Proto header from all incoming requests. In other words, if end users include that header in their requests, the proxy will discard it. Your proxy sets the X-Forwarded-Proto header and sends it to Django, but only for requests that originally come in via HTTPS. If any of those are not true, you should keep this setting set to None and find another way of determining HTTPS, perhaps via custom middleware. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT Default: [] (Empty list) If a URL path matches a regular expression in this list, the request will not be redirected to HTTPS. The SecurityMiddleware strips leading slashes from URL paths, so patterns shouldn’t include them, e.g. SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT = [r'^no-ssl/$', …]. If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY Default: 'same-origin' If configured, the SecurityMiddleware sets the Referrer Policy header on all responses that do not already have it to the value provided. SECURE_SSL_HOST Default: None If a string (e.g. secure.example.com), all SSL redirects will be directed to this host rather than the originally-requested host (e.g. www.example.com). If SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT is False, this setting has no effect. SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT Default: False If True, the SecurityMiddleware redirects all non-HTTPS requests to HTTPS (except for those URLs matching a regular expression listed in SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT). Note If turning this to True causes infinite redirects, it probably means your site is running behind a proxy and can’t tell which requests are secure and which are not. Your proxy likely sets a header to indicate secure requests; you can correct the problem by finding out what that header is and configuring the SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER setting accordingly. SERIALIZATION_MODULES Default: Not defined A dictionary of modules containing serializer definitions (provided as strings), keyed by a string identifier for that serialization type. For example, to define a YAML serializer, use: SERIALIZATION_MODULES = {'yaml': 'path.to.yaml_serializer'}
SERVER_EMAIL Default: 'root@localhost' The email address that error messages come from, such as those sent to ADMINS and MANAGERS. Why are my emails sent from a different address? This address is used only for error messages. It is not the address that regular email messages sent with send_mail() come from; for that, see DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. SHORT_DATE_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y' (e.g. 12/31/2003) An available formatting that can be used for displaying date fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT. SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT Default: 'm/d/Y P' (e.g. 12/31/2003 4 p.m.) An available formatting that can be used for displaying datetime fields on templates. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and SHORT_DATE_FORMAT. SIGNING_BACKEND Default: 'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner' The backend used for signing cookies and other data. See also the Cryptographic signing documentation. SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS Default: [] (Empty list) A list of identifiers of messages generated by the system check framework (i.e. ["models.W001"]) that you wish to permanently acknowledge and ignore. Silenced checks will not be output to the console. See also the System check framework documentation. TEMPLATES Default: [] (Empty list) A list containing the settings for all template engines to be used with Django. Each item of the list is a dictionary containing the options for an individual engine. Here’s a setup that tells the Django template engine to load templates from the templates subdirectory inside each installed application: TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'APP_DIRS': True,
},
]
The following options are available for all backends. BACKEND Default: Not defined The template backend to use. The built-in template backends are: 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates' 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2' You can use a template backend that doesn’t ship with Django by setting BACKEND to a fully-qualified path (i.e. 'mypackage.whatever.Backend'). NAME Default: see below The alias for this particular template engine. It’s an identifier that allows selecting an engine for rendering. Aliases must be unique across all configured template engines. It defaults to the name of the module defining the engine class, i.e. the next to last piece of BACKEND, when it isn’t provided. For example if the backend is 'mypackage.whatever.Backend' then its default name is 'whatever'. DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) Directories where the engine should look for template source files, in search order. APP_DIRS Default: False Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed applications. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject sets 'APP_DIRS': True. OPTIONS Default: {} (Empty dict) Extra parameters to pass to the template backend. Available parameters vary depending on the template backend. See DjangoTemplates and Jinja2 for the options of the built-in backends. TEST_RUNNER Default: 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner' The name of the class to use for starting the test suite. See Using different testing frameworks. TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS Default: [] (Empty list) In order to restore the database state between tests for TransactionTestCases and database backends without transactions, Django will serialize the contents of all apps when it starts the test run so it can then reload from that copy before running tests that need it. This slows down the startup time of the test runner; if you have apps that you know don’t need this feature, you can add their full names in here (e.g. 'django.contrib.contenttypes') to exclude them from this serialization process. THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: ',' (Comma) Default thousand separator used when formatting numbers. This setting is used only when USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR is True and NUMBER_GROUPING is greater than 0. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also NUMBER_GROUPING, DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. TIME_FORMAT Default: 'P' (e.g. 4 p.m.) The default formatting to use for displaying time fields in any part of the system. Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT and DATETIME_FORMAT. TIME_INPUT_FORMATS Default: [
'%H:%M:%S', # '14:30:59'
'%H:%M:%S.%f', # '14:30:59.000200'
'%H:%M', # '14:30'
]
A list of formats that will be accepted when inputting data on a time field. Formats will be tried in order, using the first valid one. Note that these format strings use Python’s datetime module syntax, not the format strings from the date template filter. When USE_L10N is True, the locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied instead. See also DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS. TIME_ZONE Default: 'America/Chicago' A string representing the time zone for this installation. See the list of time zones. Note Since Django was first released with the TIME_ZONE set to 'America/Chicago', the global setting (used if nothing is defined in your project’s settings.py) remains 'America/Chicago' for backwards compatibility. New project templates default to 'UTC'. Note that this isn’t necessarily the time zone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time zone setting. When USE_TZ is False, this is the time zone in which Django will store all datetimes. When USE_TZ is True, this is the default time zone that Django will use to display datetimes in templates and to interpret datetimes entered in forms. On Unix environments (where time.tzset() is implemented), Django sets the os.environ['TZ'] variable to the time zone you specify in the TIME_ZONE setting. Thus, all your views and models will automatically operate in this time zone. However, Django won’t set the TZ environment variable if you’re using the manual configuration option as described in manually configuring settings. If Django doesn’t set the TZ environment variable, it’s up to you to ensure your processes are running in the correct environment. Note Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows environment. If you’re running Django on Windows, TIME_ZONE must be set to match the system time zone. USE_DEPRECATED_PYTZ New in Django 4.0. Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use pytz, rather than zoneinfo, as the default time zone implementation. Deprecated since version 4.0: This transitional setting is deprecated. Support for using pytz will be removed in Django 5.0. USE_I18N Default: True A boolean that specifies whether Django’s translation system should be enabled. This provides a way to turn it off, for performance. If this is set to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not to load the translation machinery. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_L10N and USE_TZ. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin
startproject includes USE_I18N = True for convenience. USE_L10N Default: True A boolean that specifies if localized formatting of data will be enabled by default or not. If this is set to True, e.g. Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. See also LANGUAGE_CODE, USE_I18N and USE_TZ. Changed in Django 4.0: In older versions, the default value is False. Deprecated since version 4.0: This setting is deprecated. Starting with Django 5.0, localized formatting of data will always be enabled. For example Django will display numbers and dates using the format of the current locale. USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to display numbers using a thousand separator. When set to True and USE_L10N is also True, Django will format numbers using the NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR settings. These settings may also be dictated by the locale, which takes precedence. See also DECIMAL_SEPARATOR, NUMBER_GROUPING and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR. USE_TZ Default: False Note In Django 5.0, the default value will change from False to True. A boolean that specifies if datetimes will be timezone-aware by default or not. If this is set to True, Django will use timezone-aware datetimes internally. When USE_TZ is False, Django will use naive datetimes in local time, except when parsing ISO 8601 formatted strings, where timezone information will always be retained if present. See also TIME_ZONE, USE_I18N and USE_L10N. Note The default settings.py file created by django-admin startproject includes USE_TZ = True for convenience. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Host header in preference to the Host header. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. This setting takes priority over USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. Per RFC 7239#section-5.3, the X-Forwarded-Host header can include the port number, in which case you shouldn’t use USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT. USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT Default: False A boolean that specifies whether to use the X-Forwarded-Port header in preference to the SERVER_PORT META variable. This should only be enabled if a proxy which sets this header is in use. USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST takes priority over this setting. WSGI_APPLICATION Default: None The full Python path of the WSGI application object that Django’s built-in servers (e.g. runserver) will use. The django-admin
startproject management command will create a standard wsgi.py file with an application callable in it, and point this setting to that application. If not set, the return value of django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application() will be used. In this case, the behavior of runserver will be identical to previous Django versions. YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT Default: 'F Y' The default formatting to use for date fields on Django admin change-list pages – and, possibly, by other parts of the system – in cases when only the year and month are displayed. For example, when a Django admin change-list page is being filtered by a date drilldown, the header for a given month displays the month and the year. Different locales have different formats. For example, U.S. English would say “January 2006,” whereas another locale might say “2006/January.” Note that if USE_L10N is set to True, then the corresponding locale-dictated format has higher precedence and will be applied. See allowed date format strings. See also DATE_FORMAT, DATETIME_FORMAT, TIME_FORMAT and MONTH_DAY_FORMAT. X_FRAME_OPTIONS Default: 'DENY' The default value for the X-Frame-Options header used by XFrameOptionsMiddleware. See the clickjacking protection documentation. Auth Settings for django.contrib.auth. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS Default: ['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'] A list of authentication backend classes (as strings) to use when attempting to authenticate a user. See the authentication backends documentation for details. AUTH_USER_MODEL Default: 'auth.User' The model to use to represent a User. See Substituting a custom User model. Warning You cannot change the AUTH_USER_MODEL setting during the lifetime of a project (i.e. once you have made and migrated models that depend on it) without serious effort. It is intended to be set at the project start, and the model it refers to must be available in the first migration of the app that it lives in. See Substituting a custom User model for more details. LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL Default: '/accounts/profile/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after login when the LoginView doesn’t get a next GET parameter. LOGIN_URL Default: '/accounts/login/' The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected for login when using the login_required() decorator, LoginRequiredMixin, or AccessMixin. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL Default: None The URL or named URL pattern where requests are redirected after logout if LogoutView doesn’t have a next_page attribute. If None, no redirect will be performed and the logout view will be rendered. PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT Default: 259200 (3 days, in seconds) The number of seconds a password reset link is valid for. Used by the PasswordResetConfirmView. Note Reducing the value of this timeout doesn’t make any difference to the ability of an attacker to brute-force a password reset token. Tokens are designed to be safe from brute-forcing without any timeout. This timeout exists to protect against some unlikely attack scenarios, such as someone gaining access to email archives that may contain old, unused password reset tokens. PASSWORD_HASHERS See How Django stores passwords. Default: [
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.PBKDF2SHA1PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.Argon2PasswordHasher',
'django.contrib.auth.hashers.BCryptSHA256PasswordHasher',
]
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS Default: [] (Empty list) The list of validators that are used to check the strength of user’s passwords. See Password validation for more details. By default, no validation is performed and all passwords are accepted. Messages Settings for django.contrib.messages. MESSAGE_LEVEL Default: messages.INFO Sets the minimum message level that will be recorded by the messages framework. See message levels for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_LEVEL in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_LEVEL = message_constants.DEBUG
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. MESSAGE_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' Controls where Django stores message data. Valid values are: 'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.session.SessionStorage' 'django.contrib.messages.storage.cookie.CookieStorage' See message storage backends for more details. The backends that use cookies – CookieStorage and FallbackStorage – use the value of SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN, SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY when setting their cookies. MESSAGE_TAGS Default: {
messages.DEBUG: 'debug',
messages.INFO: 'info',
messages.SUCCESS: 'success',
messages.WARNING: 'warning',
messages.ERROR: 'error',
}
This sets the mapping of message level to message tag, which is typically rendered as a CSS class in HTML. If you specify a value, it will extend the default. This means you only have to specify those values which you need to override. See Displaying messages above for more details. Important If you override MESSAGE_TAGS in your settings file and rely on any of the built-in constants, you must import the constants module directly to avoid the potential for circular imports, e.g.: from django.contrib.messages import constants as message_constants
MESSAGE_TAGS = {message_constants.INFO: ''}
If desired, you may specify the numeric values for the constants directly according to the values in the above constants table. Sessions Settings for django.contrib.sessions. SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS Default: 'default' If you’re using cache-based session storage, this selects the cache to use. SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN Default: None The domain to use for session cookies. Set this to a string such as "example.com" for cross-domain cookies, or use None for a standard domain cookie. To use cross-domain cookies with CSRF_USE_SESSIONS, you must include a leading dot (e.g. ".example.com") to accommodate the CSRF middleware’s referer checking. Be cautious when updating this setting on a production site. If you update this setting to enable cross-domain cookies on a site that previously used standard domain cookies, existing user cookies will be set to the old domain. This may result in them being unable to log in as long as these cookies persist. This setting also affects cookies set by django.contrib.messages. SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY Default: True Whether to use HttpOnly flag on the session cookie. If this is set to True, client-side JavaScript will not be able to access the session cookie. HttpOnly is a flag included in a Set-Cookie HTTP response header. It’s part of the RFC 6265#section-4.1.2.6 standard for cookies and can be a useful way to mitigate the risk of a client-side script accessing the protected cookie data. This makes it less trivial for an attacker to escalate a cross-site scripting vulnerability into full hijacking of a user’s session. There aren’t many good reasons for turning this off. Your code shouldn’t read session cookies from JavaScript. SESSION_COOKIE_NAME Default: 'sessionid' The name of the cookie to use for sessions. This can be whatever you want (as long as it’s different from the other cookie names in your application). SESSION_COOKIE_PATH Default: '/' The path set on the session cookie. This should either match the URL path of your Django installation or be parent of that path. This is useful if you have multiple Django instances running under the same hostname. They can use different cookie paths, and each instance will only see its own session cookie. SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE Default: 'Lax' The value of the SameSite flag on the session cookie. This flag prevents the cookie from being sent in cross-site requests thus preventing CSRF attacks and making some methods of stealing session cookie impossible. Possible values for the setting are:
'Strict': prevents the cookie from being sent by the browser to the target site in all cross-site browsing context, even when following a regular link. For example, for a GitHub-like website this would mean that if a logged-in user follows a link to a private GitHub project posted on a corporate discussion forum or email, GitHub will not receive the session cookie and the user won’t be able to access the project. A bank website, however, most likely doesn’t want to allow any transactional pages to be linked from external sites so the 'Strict' flag would be appropriate.
'Lax' (default): provides a balance between security and usability for websites that want to maintain user’s logged-in session after the user arrives from an external link. In the GitHub scenario, the session cookie would be allowed when following a regular link from an external website and be blocked in CSRF-prone request methods (e.g. POST).
'None' (string): the session cookie will be sent with all same-site and cross-site requests.
False: disables the flag. Note Modern browsers provide a more secure default policy for the SameSite flag and will assume Lax for cookies without an explicit value set. SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE Default: False Whether to use a secure cookie for the session cookie. If this is set to True, the cookie will be marked as “secure”, which means browsers may ensure that the cookie is only sent under an HTTPS connection. Leaving this setting off isn’t a good idea because an attacker could capture an unencrypted session cookie with a packet sniffer and use the cookie to hijack the user’s session. SESSION_ENGINE Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' Controls where Django stores session data. Included engines are: 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db' 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies' See Configuring the session engine for more details. SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE Default: False Whether to expire the session when the user closes their browser. See Browser-length sessions vs. persistent sessions. SESSION_FILE_PATH Default: None If you’re using file-based session storage, this sets the directory in which Django will store session data. When the default value (None) is used, Django will use the standard temporary directory for the system. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has been modified – that is, if any of its dictionary values have been assigned or deleted. Empty sessions won’t be created, even if this setting is active. SESSION_SERIALIZER Default: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' Full import path of a serializer class to use for serializing session data. Included serializers are: 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.PickleSerializer' 'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer' See Session serialization for details, including a warning regarding possible remote code execution when using PickleSerializer. Sites Settings for django.contrib.sites. SITE_ID Default: Not defined The ID, as an integer, of the current site in the django_site database table. This is used so that application data can hook into specific sites and a single database can manage content for multiple sites. Static Files Settings for django.contrib.staticfiles. STATIC_ROOT Default: None The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/" If the staticfiles contrib app is enabled (as in the default project template), the collectstatic management command will collect static files into this directory. See the how-to on managing static files for more details about usage. Warning This should be an initially empty destination directory for collecting your static files from their permanent locations into one directory for ease of deployment; it is not a place to store your static files permanently. You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles’s finders, which by default, are 'static/' app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES_DIRS). STATIC_URL Default: None URL to use when referring to static files located in STATIC_ROOT. Example: "static/" or "http://static.example.com/" If not None, this will be used as the base path for asset definitions (the Media class) and the staticfiles app. It must end in a slash if set to a non-empty value. You may need to configure these files to be served in development and will definitely need to do so in production. Note If STATIC_URL is a relative path, then it will be prefixed by the server-provided value of SCRIPT_NAME (or / if not set). This makes it easier to serve a Django application in a subpath without adding an extra configuration to the settings. STATICFILES_DIRS Default: [] (Empty list) This setting defines the additional locations the staticfiles app will traverse if the FileSystemFinder finder is enabled, e.g. if you use the collectstatic or findstatic management command or use the static file serving view. This should be set to a list of strings that contain full paths to your additional files directory(ies) e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
"/home/special.polls.com/polls/static",
"/home/polls.com/polls/static",
"/opt/webfiles/common",
]
Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows (e.g. "C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"). Prefixes (optional) In case you want to refer to files in one of the locations with an additional namespace, you can optionally provide a prefix as (prefix, path) tuples, e.g.: STATICFILES_DIRS = [
# ...
("downloads", "/opt/webfiles/stats"),
]
For example, assuming you have STATIC_URL set to 'static/', the collectstatic management command would collect the “stats” files in a 'downloads' subdirectory of STATIC_ROOT. This would allow you to refer to the local file '/opt/webfiles/stats/polls_20101022.tar.gz' with '/static/downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' in your templates, e.g.: <a href="{% static 'downloads/polls_20101022.tar.gz' %}">
STATICFILES_STORAGE Default: 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage' The file storage engine to use when collecting static files with the collectstatic management command. A ready-to-use instance of the storage backend defined in this setting can be found at django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.staticfiles_storage. For an example, see Serving static files from a cloud service or CDN. STATICFILES_FINDERS Default: [
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations. The default will find files stored in the STATICFILES_DIRS setting (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder) and in a static subdirectory of each app (using django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder). If multiple files with the same name are present, the first file that is found will be used. One finder is disabled by default: django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder. If added to your STATICFILES_FINDERS setting, it will look for static files in the default file storage as defined by the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE setting. Note When using the AppDirectoriesFinder finder, make sure your apps can be found by staticfiles by adding the app to the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your site. Static file finders are currently considered a private interface, and this interface is thus undocumented. Core Settings Topical Index Cache CACHES CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS Database DATABASES DATABASE_ROUTERS DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE DEFAULT_TABLESPACE Debugging DEBUG DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS Email ADMINS DEFAULT_CHARSET DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL EMAIL_BACKEND EMAIL_FILE_PATH EMAIL_HOST EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD EMAIL_HOST_USER EMAIL_PORT EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX EMAIL_TIMEOUT EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME EMAIL_USE_TLS MANAGERS SERVER_EMAIL Error reporting DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER IGNORABLE_404_URLS MANAGERS SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS File uploads DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR MEDIA_ROOT MEDIA_URL Forms FORM_RENDERER Globalization (i18n/l10n) DATE_FORMAT DATE_INPUT_FORMATS DATETIME_FORMAT DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS DECIMAL_SEPARATOR FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK FORMAT_MODULE_PATH LANGUAGE_CODE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE LANGUAGES LANGUAGES_BIDI LOCALE_PATHS MONTH_DAY_FORMAT NUMBER_GROUPING SHORT_DATE_FORMAT SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT THOUSAND_SEPARATOR TIME_FORMAT TIME_INPUT_FORMATS TIME_ZONE USE_I18N USE_L10N USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR USE_TZ YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT HTTP DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS DEFAULT_CHARSET DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME INTERNAL_IPS MIDDLEWARE Security SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY SECURE_SSL_HOST SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT SIGNING_BACKEND USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT WSGI_APPLICATION Logging LOGGING LOGGING_CONFIG Models ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES FIXTURE_DIRS INSTALLED_APPS Security Cross Site Request Forgery Protection CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN CSRF_COOKIE_NAME CSRF_COOKIE_PATH CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW CSRF_HEADER_NAME CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS CSRF_USE_SESSIONS SECRET_KEY X_FRAME_OPTIONS Serialization DEFAULT_CHARSET SERIALIZATION_MODULES Templates TEMPLATES Testing Database: TEST
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS TEST_RUNNER URLs APPEND_SLASH PREPEND_WWW ROOT_URLCONF | django.ref.settings#std:setting-YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT |
setup(set_prefix=True) [source]
Configures Django by: Loading the settings. Setting up logging. If set_prefix is True, setting the URL resolver script prefix to FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME if defined, or / otherwise. Initializing the application registry. This function is called automatically: When running an HTTP server via Django’s WSGI support. When invoking a management command. It must be called explicitly in other cases, for instance in plain Python scripts. | django.ref.applications#django.setup |
get_list_or_404(klass, *args, **kwargs)
Returns the result of filter() on a given model manager cast to a list, raising Http404 if the resulting list is empty. | django.topics.http.shortcuts#django.shortcuts.get_list_or_404 |
get_object_or_404(klass, *args, **kwargs)
Calls get() on a given model manager, but it raises Http404 instead of the model’s DoesNotExist exception. | django.topics.http.shortcuts#django.shortcuts.get_object_or_404 |
redirect(to, *args, permanent=False, **kwargs)
Returns an HttpResponseRedirect to the appropriate URL for the arguments passed. The arguments could be: A model: the model’s get_absolute_url() function will be called. A view name, possibly with arguments: reverse() will be used to reverse-resolve the name. An absolute or relative URL, which will be used as-is for the redirect location. By default issues a temporary redirect; pass permanent=True to issue a permanent redirect. | django.topics.http.shortcuts#django.shortcuts.redirect |
render(request, template_name, context=None, content_type=None, status=None, using=None)
Combines a given template with a given context dictionary and returns an HttpResponse object with that rendered text. Django does not provide a shortcut function which returns a TemplateResponse because the constructor of TemplateResponse offers the same level of convenience as render(). | django.topics.http.shortcuts#django.shortcuts.render |
Signals A list of all the signals that Django sends. All built-in signals are sent using the send() method. See also See the documentation on the signal dispatcher for information regarding how to register for and receive signals. The authentication framework sends signals when a user is logged in / out. Model signals The django.db.models.signals module defines a set of signals sent by the model system. Warning Many of these signals are sent by various model methods like __init__() or save() that you can override in your own code. If you override these methods on your model, you must call the parent class’ methods for these signals to be sent. Note also that Django stores signal handlers as weak references by default, so if your handler is a local function, it may be garbage collected. To prevent this, pass weak=False when you call the signal’s connect(). Note Model signals sender model can be lazily referenced when connecting a receiver by specifying its full application label. For example, an Question model defined in the polls application could be referenced as 'polls.Question'. This sort of reference can be quite handy when dealing with circular import dependencies and swappable models. pre_init
django.db.models.signals.pre_init
Whenever you instantiate a Django model, this signal is sent at the beginning of the model’s __init__() method. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender The model class that just had an instance created.
args A list of positional arguments passed to __init__().
kwargs A dictionary of keyword arguments passed to __init__(). For example, the tutorial has this line: q = Question(question_text="What's new?", pub_date=timezone.now())
The arguments sent to a pre_init handler would be:
Argument Value
sender
Question (the class itself)
args
[] (an empty list because there were no positional arguments passed to __init__())
kwargs
{'question_text': "What's new?", 'pub_date': datetime.datetime(2012, 2, 26, 13, 0, 0, 775217, tzinfo=<UTC>)}
post_init
django.db.models.signals.post_init
Like pre_init, but this one is sent when the __init__() method finishes. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender As above: the model class that just had an instance created.
instance
The actual instance of the model that’s just been created. Note instance._state isn’t set before sending the post_init signal, so _state attributes always have their default values. For example, _state.db is None. Warning For performance reasons, you shouldn’t perform queries in receivers of pre_init or post_init signals because they would be executed for each instance returned during queryset iteration. pre_save
django.db.models.signals.pre_save
This is sent at the beginning of a model’s save() method. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender The model class.
instance The actual instance being saved.
raw A boolean; True if the model is saved exactly as presented (i.e. when loading a fixture). One should not query/modify other records in the database as the database might not be in a consistent state yet.
using The database alias being used.
update_fields The set of fields to update as passed to Model.save(), or None if update_fields wasn’t passed to save(). post_save
django.db.models.signals.post_save
Like pre_save, but sent at the end of the save() method. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender The model class.
instance The actual instance being saved.
created A boolean; True if a new record was created.
raw A boolean; True if the model is saved exactly as presented (i.e. when loading a fixture). One should not query/modify other records in the database as the database might not be in a consistent state yet.
using The database alias being used.
update_fields The set of fields to update as passed to Model.save(), or None if update_fields wasn’t passed to save(). pre_delete
django.db.models.signals.pre_delete
Sent at the beginning of a model’s delete() method and a queryset’s delete() method. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender The model class.
instance The actual instance being deleted.
using The database alias being used. post_delete
django.db.models.signals.post_delete
Like pre_delete, but sent at the end of a model’s delete() method and a queryset’s delete() method. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender The model class.
instance
The actual instance being deleted. Note that the object will no longer be in the database, so be very careful what you do with this instance.
using The database alias being used. m2m_changed
django.db.models.signals.m2m_changed
Sent when a ManyToManyField is changed on a model instance. Strictly speaking, this is not a model signal since it is sent by the ManyToManyField, but since it complements the pre_save/post_save and pre_delete/post_delete when it comes to tracking changes to models, it is included here. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender The intermediate model class describing the ManyToManyField. This class is automatically created when a many-to-many field is defined; you can access it using the through attribute on the many-to-many field.
instance The instance whose many-to-many relation is updated. This can be an instance of the sender, or of the class the ManyToManyField is related to.
action
A string indicating the type of update that is done on the relation. This can be one of the following:
"pre_add" Sent before one or more objects are added to the relation.
"post_add" Sent after one or more objects are added to the relation.
"pre_remove" Sent before one or more objects are removed from the relation.
"post_remove" Sent after one or more objects are removed from the relation.
"pre_clear" Sent before the relation is cleared.
"post_clear" Sent after the relation is cleared.
reverse Indicates which side of the relation is updated (i.e., if it is the forward or reverse relation that is being modified).
model The class of the objects that are added to, removed from or cleared from the relation.
pk_set
For the pre_add and post_add actions, this is a set of primary key values that will be, or have been, added to the relation. This may be a subset of the values submitted to be added, since inserts must filter existing values in order to avoid a database IntegrityError. For the pre_remove and post_remove actions, this is a set of primary key values that was submitted to be removed from the relation. This is not dependent on whether the values actually will be, or have been, removed. In particular, non-existent values may be submitted, and will appear in pk_set, even though they have no effect on the database. For the pre_clear and post_clear actions, this is None.
using The database alias being used. For example, if a Pizza can have multiple Topping objects, modeled like this: class Topping(models.Model):
# ...
pass
class Pizza(models.Model):
# ...
toppings = models.ManyToManyField(Topping)
If we connected a handler like this: from django.db.models.signals import m2m_changed
def toppings_changed(sender, **kwargs):
# Do something
pass
m2m_changed.connect(toppings_changed, sender=Pizza.toppings.through)
and then did something like this: >>> p = Pizza.objects.create(...)
>>> t = Topping.objects.create(...)
>>> p.toppings.add(t)
the arguments sent to a m2m_changed handler (toppings_changed in the example above) would be:
Argument Value
sender
Pizza.toppings.through (the intermediate m2m class)
instance
p (the Pizza instance being modified)
action
"pre_add" (followed by a separate signal with "post_add")
reverse
False (Pizza contains the ManyToManyField, so this call modifies the forward relation)
model
Topping (the class of the objects added to the Pizza)
pk_set
{t.id} (since only Topping t was added to the relation)
using
"default" (since the default router sends writes here) And if we would then do something like this: >>> t.pizza_set.remove(p)
the arguments sent to a m2m_changed handler would be:
Argument Value
sender
Pizza.toppings.through (the intermediate m2m class)
instance
t (the Topping instance being modified)
action
"pre_remove" (followed by a separate signal with "post_remove")
reverse
True (Pizza contains the ManyToManyField, so this call modifies the reverse relation)
model
Pizza (the class of the objects removed from the Topping)
pk_set
{p.id} (since only Pizza p was removed from the relation)
using
"default" (since the default router sends writes here) class_prepared
django.db.models.signals.class_prepared
Sent whenever a model class has been “prepared” – that is, once model has been defined and registered with Django’s model system. Django uses this signal internally; it’s not generally used in third-party applications. Since this signal is sent during the app registry population process, and AppConfig.ready() runs after the app registry is fully populated, receivers cannot be connected in that method. One possibility is to connect them AppConfig.__init__() instead, taking care not to import models or trigger calls to the app registry. Arguments that are sent with this signal:
sender The model class which was just prepared. Management signals Signals sent by django-admin. pre_migrate
django.db.models.signals.pre_migrate
Sent by the migrate command before it starts to install an application. It’s not emitted for applications that lack a models module. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender An AppConfig instance for the application about to be migrated/synced.
app_config Same as sender.
verbosity
Indicates how much information manage.py is printing on screen. See the --verbosity flag for details. Functions which listen for pre_migrate should adjust what they output to the screen based on the value of this argument.
interactive
If interactive is True, it’s safe to prompt the user to input things on the command line. If interactive is False, functions which listen for this signal should not try to prompt for anything. For example, the django.contrib.auth app only prompts to create a superuser when interactive is True.
stdout
New in Django 4.0. A stream-like object where verbose output should be redirected.
using The alias of database on which a command will operate.
plan The migration plan that is going to be used for the migration run. While the plan is not public API, this allows for the rare cases when it is necessary to know the plan. A plan is a list of two-tuples with the first item being the instance of a migration class and the second item showing if the migration was rolled back (True) or applied (False).
apps An instance of Apps containing the state of the project before the migration run. It should be used instead of the global apps registry to retrieve the models you want to perform operations on. post_migrate
django.db.models.signals.post_migrate
Sent at the end of the migrate (even if no migrations are run) and flush commands. It’s not emitted for applications that lack a models module. Handlers of this signal must not perform database schema alterations as doing so may cause the flush command to fail if it runs during the migrate command. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender An AppConfig instance for the application that was just installed.
app_config Same as sender.
verbosity
Indicates how much information manage.py is printing on screen. See the --verbosity flag for details. Functions which listen for post_migrate should adjust what they output to the screen based on the value of this argument.
interactive
If interactive is True, it’s safe to prompt the user to input things on the command line. If interactive is False, functions which listen for this signal should not try to prompt for anything. For example, the django.contrib.auth app only prompts to create a superuser when interactive is True.
stdout
New in Django 4.0. A stream-like object where verbose output should be redirected.
using The database alias used for synchronization. Defaults to the default database.
plan The migration plan that was used for the migration run. While the plan is not public API, this allows for the rare cases when it is necessary to know the plan. A plan is a list of two-tuples with the first item being the instance of a migration class and the second item showing if the migration was rolled back (True) or applied (False).
apps An instance of Apps containing the state of the project after the migration run. It should be used instead of the global apps registry to retrieve the models you want to perform operations on. For example, you could register a callback in an AppConfig like this: from django.apps import AppConfig
from django.db.models.signals import post_migrate
def my_callback(sender, **kwargs):
# Your specific logic here
pass
class MyAppConfig(AppConfig):
...
def ready(self):
post_migrate.connect(my_callback, sender=self)
Note If you provide an AppConfig instance as the sender argument, please ensure that the signal is registered in ready(). AppConfigs are recreated for tests that run with a modified set of INSTALLED_APPS (such as when settings are overridden) and such signals should be connected for each new AppConfig instance. Request/response signals Signals sent by the core framework when processing a request. request_started
django.core.signals.request_started
Sent when Django begins processing an HTTP request. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender The handler class – e.g. django.core.handlers.wsgi.WsgiHandler – that handled the request.
environ The environ dictionary provided to the request. request_finished
django.core.signals.request_finished
Sent when Django finishes delivering an HTTP response to the client. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender The handler class, as above. got_request_exception
django.core.signals.got_request_exception
This signal is sent whenever Django encounters an exception while processing an incoming HTTP request. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender Unused (always None).
request The HttpRequest object. Test signals Signals only sent when running tests. setting_changed
django.test.signals.setting_changed
This signal is sent when the value of a setting is changed through the django.test.TestCase.settings() context manager or the django.test.override_settings() decorator/context manager. It’s actually sent twice: when the new value is applied (“setup”) and when the original value is restored (“teardown”). Use the enter argument to distinguish between the two. You can also import this signal from django.core.signals to avoid importing from django.test in non-test situations. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender The settings handler.
setting The name of the setting.
value The value of the setting after the change. For settings that initially don’t exist, in the “teardown” phase, value is None.
enter A boolean; True if the setting is applied, False if restored. template_rendered
django.test.signals.template_rendered
Sent when the test system renders a template. This signal is not emitted during normal operation of a Django server – it is only available during testing. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender The Template object which was rendered.
template Same as sender
context The Context with which the template was rendered. Database Wrappers Signals sent by the database wrapper when a database connection is initiated. connection_created
django.db.backends.signals.connection_created
Sent when the database wrapper makes the initial connection to the database. This is particularly useful if you’d like to send any post connection commands to the SQL backend. Arguments sent with this signal:
sender The database wrapper class – i.e. django.db.backends.postgresql.DatabaseWrapper or django.db.backends.mysql.DatabaseWrapper, etc.
connection The database connection that was opened. This can be used in a multiple-database configuration to differentiate connection signals from different databases. | django.ref.signals |
Signals Django includes a “signal dispatcher” which helps decoupled applications get notified when actions occur elsewhere in the framework. In a nutshell, signals allow certain senders to notify a set of receivers that some action has taken place. They’re especially useful when many pieces of code may be interested in the same events. Django provides a set of built-in signals that let user code get notified by Django itself of certain actions. These include some useful notifications:
django.db.models.signals.pre_save & django.db.models.signals.post_save Sent before or after a model’s save() method is called.
django.db.models.signals.pre_delete & django.db.models.signals.post_delete Sent before or after a model’s delete() method or queryset’s delete() method is called.
django.db.models.signals.m2m_changed Sent when a ManyToManyField on a model is changed.
django.core.signals.request_started & django.core.signals.request_finished Sent when Django starts or finishes an HTTP request. See the built-in signal documentation for a complete list, and a complete explanation of each signal. You can also define and send your own custom signals; see below. Listening to signals To receive a signal, register a receiver function using the Signal.connect() method. The receiver function is called when the signal is sent. All of the signal’s receiver functions are called one at a time, in the order they were registered.
Signal.connect(receiver, sender=None, weak=True, dispatch_uid=None) [source]
Parameters:
receiver – The callback function which will be connected to this signal. See Receiver functions for more information.
sender – Specifies a particular sender to receive signals from. See Connecting to signals sent by specific senders for more information.
weak – Django stores signal handlers as weak references by default. Thus, if your receiver is a local function, it may be garbage collected. To prevent this, pass weak=False when you call the signal’s connect() method.
dispatch_uid – A unique identifier for a signal receiver in cases where duplicate signals may be sent. See Preventing duplicate signals for more information.
Let’s see how this works by registering a signal that gets called after each HTTP request is finished. We’ll be connecting to the request_finished signal. Receiver functions First, we need to define a receiver function. A receiver can be any Python function or method: def my_callback(sender, **kwargs):
print("Request finished!")
Notice that the function takes a sender argument, along with wildcard keyword arguments (**kwargs); all signal handlers must take these arguments. We’ll look at senders a bit later, but right now look at the **kwargs argument. All signals send keyword arguments, and may change those keyword arguments at any time. In the case of request_finished, it’s documented as sending no arguments, which means we might be tempted to write our signal handling as my_callback(sender). This would be wrong – in fact, Django will throw an error if you do so. That’s because at any point arguments could get added to the signal and your receiver must be able to handle those new arguments. Connecting receiver functions There are two ways you can connect a receiver to a signal. You can take the manual connect route: from django.core.signals import request_finished
request_finished.connect(my_callback)
Alternatively, you can use a receiver() decorator:
receiver(signal) [source]
Parameters:
signal – A signal or a list of signals to connect a function to.
Here’s how you connect with the decorator: from django.core.signals import request_finished
from django.dispatch import receiver
@receiver(request_finished)
def my_callback(sender, **kwargs):
print("Request finished!")
Now, our my_callback function will be called each time a request finishes. Where should this code live? Strictly speaking, signal handling and registration code can live anywhere you like, although it’s recommended to avoid the application’s root module and its models module to minimize side-effects of importing code. In practice, signal handlers are usually defined in a signals submodule of the application they relate to. Signal receivers are connected in the ready() method of your application configuration class. If you’re using the receiver() decorator, import the signals submodule inside ready(), this will implicitly connect signal handlers: from django.apps import AppConfig
from django.core.signals import request_finished
class MyAppConfig(AppConfig):
...
def ready(self):
# Implicitly connect a signal handlers decorated with @receiver.
from . import signals
# Explicitly connect a signal handler.
request_finished.connect(signals.my_callback)
Note The ready() method may be executed more than once during testing, so you may want to guard your signals from duplication, especially if you’re planning to send them within tests. Connecting to signals sent by specific senders Some signals get sent many times, but you’ll only be interested in receiving a certain subset of those signals. For example, consider the django.db.models.signals.pre_save signal sent before a model gets saved. Most of the time, you don’t need to know when any model gets saved – just when one specific model is saved. In these cases, you can register to receive signals sent only by particular senders. In the case of django.db.models.signals.pre_save, the sender will be the model class being saved, so you can indicate that you only want signals sent by some model: from django.db.models.signals import pre_save
from django.dispatch import receiver
from myapp.models import MyModel
@receiver(pre_save, sender=MyModel)
def my_handler(sender, **kwargs):
...
The my_handler function will only be called when an instance of MyModel is saved. Different signals use different objects as their senders; you’ll need to consult the built-in signal documentation for details of each particular signal. Preventing duplicate signals In some circumstances, the code connecting receivers to signals may run multiple times. This can cause your receiver function to be registered more than once, and thus called as many times for a signal event. For example, the ready() method may be executed more than once during testing. More generally, this occurs everywhere your project imports the module where you define the signals, because signal registration runs as many times as it is imported. If this behavior is problematic (such as when using signals to send an email whenever a model is saved), pass a unique identifier as the dispatch_uid argument to identify your receiver function. This identifier will usually be a string, although any hashable object will suffice. The end result is that your receiver function will only be bound to the signal once for each unique dispatch_uid value: from django.core.signals import request_finished
request_finished.connect(my_callback, dispatch_uid="my_unique_identifier")
Defining and sending signals Your applications can take advantage of the signal infrastructure and provide its own signals. When to use custom signals Signals are implicit function calls which make debugging harder. If the sender and receiver of your custom signal are both within your project, you’re better off using an explicit function call. Defining signals
class Signal [source]
All signals are django.dispatch.Signal instances. For example: import django.dispatch
pizza_done = django.dispatch.Signal()
This declares a pizza_done signal. Sending signals There are two ways to send signals in Django.
Signal.send(sender, **kwargs) [source]
Signal.send_robust(sender, **kwargs) [source]
To send a signal, call either Signal.send() (all built-in signals use this) or Signal.send_robust(). You must provide the sender argument (which is a class most of the time) and may provide as many other keyword arguments as you like. For example, here’s how sending our pizza_done signal might look: class PizzaStore:
...
def send_pizza(self, toppings, size):
pizza_done.send(sender=self.__class__, toppings=toppings, size=size)
...
Both send() and send_robust() return a list of tuple pairs [(receiver, response), ... ], representing the list of called receiver functions and their response values. send() differs from send_robust() in how exceptions raised by receiver functions are handled. send() does not catch any exceptions raised by receivers; it simply allows errors to propagate. Thus not all receivers may be notified of a signal in the face of an error. send_robust() catches all errors derived from Python’s Exception class, and ensures all receivers are notified of the signal. If an error occurs, the error instance is returned in the tuple pair for the receiver that raised the error. The tracebacks are present on the __traceback__ attribute of the errors returned when calling send_robust(). Disconnecting signals
Signal.disconnect(receiver=None, sender=None, dispatch_uid=None) [source]
To disconnect a receiver from a signal, call Signal.disconnect(). The arguments are as described in Signal.connect(). The method returns True if a receiver was disconnected and False if not. When sender is passed as a lazy reference to <app label>.<model>, this method always returns None. The receiver argument indicates the registered receiver to disconnect. It may be None if dispatch_uid is used to identify the receiver. | django.topics.signals |
class GenericSitemap(info_dict, priority=None, changefreq=None, protocol=None)
The django.contrib.sitemaps.GenericSitemap class allows you to create a sitemap by passing it a dictionary which has to contain at least a queryset entry. This queryset will be used to generate the items of the sitemap. It may also have a date_field entry that specifies a date field for objects retrieved from the queryset. This will be used for the lastmod attribute in the generated sitemap. The priority, changefreq, and protocol keyword arguments allow specifying these attributes for all URLs. | django.ref.contrib.sitemaps#django.contrib.sitemaps.GenericSitemap |
ping_google(sitemap_url=None, ping_url=PING_URL, sitemap_uses_https=True)
ping_google takes these optional arguments:
sitemap_url - The absolute path to your site’s sitemap (e.g., '/sitemap.xml'). If this argument isn’t provided, ping_google will perform a reverse lookup in your URLconf, for URLs named 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.index' and then 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap' (without further arguments) to automatically determine the sitemap URL.
ping_url - Defaults to Google’s Ping Tool: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping.
sitemap_uses_https - Set to False if your site uses http rather than https. ping_google() raises the exception django.contrib.sitemaps.SitemapNotFound if it cannot determine your sitemap URL. | django.ref.contrib.sitemaps#django.contrib.sitemaps.ping_google |
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