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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2013-06-09 15:05:15 -0400
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2013-06-09 15:06:23 -0400
commit46dacb5bb157ff78e21c19f1f1b109edf378ddcb (patch)
tree1824641cda564387575901330f88eb815ce12623 /docs/ref
parent3bd9852401cfbc8a1dfec4082303a5514ee69bf4 (diff)
[1.5.x] Fixed #19875 - Added warnings regarding DEBUG=False and empty ALLOWED_HOSTS
Backport of 4e94c84e50 from master
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@@ -823,6 +823,10 @@ It is also important to remember that when running with :setting:`DEBUG`
turned on, Django will remember every SQL query it executes. This is useful
when you're debugging, but it'll rapidly consume memory on a production server.
+Finally, if :setting:`DEBUG` is ``False``, you also need to properly set
+the :setting:`ALLOWED_HOSTS` setting. Failing to do so will result in all
+requests being returned as "Bad Request (400)".
+
.. _django/views/debug.py: https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/views/debug.py
DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS