Django redirecting http -> https

Question

I am running:

python manage.py runserver localhost:44100

And this is redirecting me to https:

» http http://localhost:44100/ HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:09:09 GMT Location: https://localhost:44100/ Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.7.14 X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

Why / how is this happening? What setting does control whether Django accepts http / https?

Alasdair · Accepted Answer · 2025-01-08 10:12:02Z

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The runserver command only handles http.

However if you have SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT set to True then you will be redirected from http to https.

See the Django docs on SSL/HTTPS for more information.

edited Jan 8 at 10:12

answered Mar 5, 2018 at 14:22

Alasdair

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5 Comments

Remo Bajwa Over a year ago

How do I revert it back to the previous setting to test in dev mode?

Alasdair Over a year ago

@RemoBajwa You can set SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT=False or remove the line from your settings. Another option might be to move SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT = True into an if statement like if not DEBUG:. Once you've changed the settings, clear your browser cache so that it doesn't continue to redirect.

paoloose Over a year ago

Thanks! Since my browser received a permanent redirection (301) I had to clear the page cache in order to get it to work.

Roger Marlow Over a year ago

Something else to watch out for, if you are setting from an environment variable in .env say, do NOT do SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT=os.environ['SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT'] as that is a string not a bool and does not eval to True as you might expect.