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Configuring settings files

Configuring settings files

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Configuring settings files

- [Instructor] So once that's completed, the next step for us, is we need to make some changes to our settings inside of our project. So, let's go ahead and just use nano to add to our file here on the server. Nano is just a quick way to make some changes to files, and so we're going to say nano, and then type out the name of our portfolio project, We want to get into the portfolio folder, and then settings.py. So go ahead and hit Enter on that. Now the first thing we need to do, is we need to say that people should be able to access this project from our IP address, or a customized domain. So at the end of this chapter, I'm going to show you how to access this project that we have via your own custom URL. So if you have a custom URL, now would be the time to type it, but if you don't, that's totally fine here, but the first thing that we need to add into this allowed hosts, which is again, the different places that people can access this project. I'm going to do a single quote and…

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