Is htaccess django necessary?

Question

Django

Now faced with the fact that I usually write redirects in the htaccess file for php projects. So two questions:
1) is this file needed for django? Yes, how do you work with it?
2) If not, how to prescribe redirects?

Answer 1

as Viktor Melnikov wrote , don't do it ever
Nobody uses Apache -- nginx + uwsgi (gunicorn)
Redirection happens in nginx

Answer 2

Regarding redirects, django has the redirects app for this https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/contrib/... , but it's worth clarifying that a redirect only works if the initial link returns a 404. Further, for a redirect to WWW in settings.py PREPEND_WWW = True For the opposite case, middleware is written, for example, like this.

class UrlMiddleware(object):

  def process_request(self, request):
      host = request.get_host()
      old_url = [host, request.path]
      new_url = old_url[:]
      
      if (settings.REMOVE_WWW and old_url[0] and old_url[0].startswith('www.')):
          new_url[0] = old_url[0][4:]
      
      if new_url != old_url:
          try:
              urlresolvers.resolve(new_url[1])
          except urlresolvers.Resolver404:
              pass
          else:
              if new_url[0]:
                  newurl = "%s://%s%s" % (
                      request.is_secure() and 'https' or 'http',
                      new_url[0], urlquote(new_url[1]))
              else:
                  newurl = urlquote(new_url[1])
              if request.GET:
                  newurl += '?' + request.GET.urlencode()
              return http.HttpResponsePermanentRedirect(newurl)
      return None

and in settings write REMOVE_WWW = True, for a redirect to a slash APPEND_SLASH = True , again it will work for a slash only if it returns 404 without a slash.