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Django 2 by Example
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Django 2 by Example

by Antonio Melé
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate
526 pages
11h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Session settings

There are several settings you can use to configure sessions for your project. The most important is SESSION_ENGINE. This setting allows you to set the place where sessions are stored. By default, Django stores sessions in the database using the Session model of the django.contrib.sessions application.

Django offers the following options for storing session data:

  • Database sessions: Session data is stored in the database. This is the default session engine.
  • File-based sessions: Session data is stored in the filesystem.
  • Cached sessions: Session data is stored in a cache backend. You can specify cache backends using the CACHES setting. Storing session data in a cache system provides the best performance.
  • Cached database sessions ...
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