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Deploy Django
Step-by-step production deployment guides for Django, Nginx, and Gunicorn.
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Troubleshooting playbooks for common Django, Nginx, and Gunicorn production failures.
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Performance and reliability improvements for stable, scalable Django operations.
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A 502 Bad Gateway in a Django deployment usually means your reverse proxy is reachable, but it cannot get a valid response from the upstream app server.
A Django app that works locally is not automatically safe to run in production. Most deployment failures come from a small set of issues: wrong settings, missing secrets, unsafe...
A good app deploy can still fail if the database migration step is unsafe. That is the real problem behind many Django migration deployment issues in production.
When you deploy Django in production, you will see both WSGI and ASGI recommended.
A lot of Django apps reach production with local-development assumptions still in place: DEBUG=True, weak host validation, secrets in .env files with broad permissions, Gunicorn...
A lot of Django production incidents come from settings.py, not application code.
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