Force SSL for Django Postgres connection

Question

I want to force Django to use SSL to connect to my postgres database.

This question indicates that I need to pass sslmode=\'require\' to the psycopg2 connec

Answer 1

Add 'OPTIONS': {'sslmode': 'require'}, to your database config. For example:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': "db_name",
        'USER': "db_username",
        'PASSWORD': "db_password",
        'HOST': "db_host",
        'OPTIONS': {'sslmode': 'require'},
    },
}

As jklingen92 points out, if you are using a database URL, such as through django-environ, add ?sslmode=require to the end of your database URL. For example:

postgres://DB_USERNAME:DB_PASSWORD@DB_HOST:PORT/DB_NAME?sslmode=require