How to activate CSRF token for Railway deployment

Hello good Django people!

I have two problems that i need help with, if you can please take a look.

I have successfully managed to (finally) upload a part of this web app i am working on, to Railway.

Problem #1
.env file is not working on Railway, so i had to move debug and secret key setup back to settings.py. Maybe someone can give an advice on this?

Problem #2:
CSRF token is not working when deployed to Railway. It is working totally fine in localhost, but on this live demo, it is not.

Forbidden (403)
CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.

Help
Reason given for failure:

    Origin checking failed - https://t3-production-7759.up.railway.app does not match any trusted origins.
    
In general, this can occur when there is a genuine Cross Site Request Forgery, or when Django’s CSRF mechanism has not been used correctly. For POST forms, you need to ensure:

Your browser is accepting cookies.
The view function passes a request to the template’s render method.
In the template, there is a {% csrf_token %} template tag inside each POST form that targets an internal URL.
If you are not using CsrfViewMiddleware, then you must use csrf_protect on any views that use the csrf_token template tag, as well as those that accept the POST data.
The form has a valid CSRF token. After logging in in another browser tab or hitting the back button after a login, you may need to reload the page with the form, because the token is rotated after a login.
You’re seeing the help section of this page because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and only the initial error message will be displayed.

You can customize this page using the CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW setting.

And here is my settings.py

from pathlib import Path

# Django environ
import environ

BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent

env = environ.Env()
environ.Env.read_env()


SECRET_KEY='django-insecure-5vb@jpl=*u2ky$rx1sw!1safaaw+!v#aekuv7'

DEBUG=True
#SECRET_KEY = env('MY_SECRET_KEY')
#DEBUG = env.bool('DEBUG', default=False)

#ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["*"]
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["t3-production-7759.up.railway.app"]

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',


    # MY APPS

    'accounts',
    'dashboard',
    'blog',
    'shop',
    'courses',
    'front',


    # 3RD Party
    'crispy_forms',
    'crispy_bootstrap5',
    'captcha',
    'axes',
    'ckeditor',

    # calculate prices on cart page for product if there is more then one product
    "mathfilters",
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'whitenoise.runserver_nostatic',    
]

CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = 'bootstrap5'


MIDDLEWARE = [
    
    # whitenoise
    "whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware",
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',

    # axes
    'axes.middleware.AxesMiddleware',

]

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
    # AxesStandaloneBackend should be the first backend in the AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS list.
    'axes.backends.AxesStandaloneBackend',

    # Django ModelBackend is the default authentication backend.
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
]

ROOT_URLCONF = 'project.urls'

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
                # by me:
                'shop.context_processors.cart',
                'shop.context_processors.category_links',
                'shop.context_processors.courses',
            ],
        },
    },
]

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'project.wsgi.application'

'''DATABASES={
   'default':{
      'ENGINE':'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
      'NAME':'tm3',
      'USER':'postgres',
      'PASSWORD':'10203344',
      'HOST':'localhost',
      'PORT':'5432',
   }
}'''



DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': BASE_DIR / 'db.sqlite3',
    }
}



AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
    },
]



LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
USE_I18N = True
USE_TZ = True


STATIC_URL = 'static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    BASE_DIR / 'static/'
]
STATIC_ROOT = 'static_root'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = "whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage"


MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
# media dir
MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'media'

DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'


# DEFINE OUR CUSTOM USER MODEL
AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'accounts.USER'

# EMAIL SMTP CONFIGURATION
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'info@tmdemo.xyz'
EMAIL_HOST = 's618.fra8.mysecurecloudhost.com'
EMAIL_PORT = '465'
EMAIL_USE_SSL = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'info@tmdemo.xyz'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ';Jh)sasfwqSK'


RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY = '6LfK9CInAAAAAEWn4M-a5A_H52fd_0MIG8hTfD6M'
RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY = '6LfK9CInAAAAAAJs0_CEtxVw2uaXnUqjNxWl4xVM'

# AXES 
AXES_FAILURE_LIMIT = 3 # koliko puta moze da promasi login
AXES_COOLOFF_TIME = 1 # cekaj 1 sat pre nego sto mozes opet da pokusas da se ulogujes
AXES_RESET_ON_SUCCESS = True # Reset failed login attempts upon successfull login
AXES_LOCKOUT_TEMPLATE = 'accounts/account-locked.html'
AXES_LOCKOUT_PARAMETERS = ['ip_address']



CKEDITOR_UPLOAD_PATH = 'uploads/'

CKEDITOR_CONFIGS = {
    'default': {
        'toolbar': 'Custom',
        'toolbar_Custom': [
            ['Bold', 'Italic', 'Underline'],
            ['NumberedList', 'BulletedList'],
            ['Link', 'Unlink'],
            ['RemoveFormat'],
            ['Image'],
        ],
        'filebrowserUploadUrl': '/upload/',  # Postavite URL za upload slika
        'filebrowserUploadMethod': 'form',   # Postavite naÄŤin slanja forme za upload
    },
}

CART_SESSION_ID = 'cart'



CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS = ['t3-production-7759.up.railway.app']
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE = True
CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE = True

I changed the secret key a bit, just wanted to show so you can see and maybe help :slight_smile:

Thank you!

Regarding the CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS question, the specification must include the http:// (and/or https:// ) scheme with the domain name. (Also see Django 4.0 release notes | Django documentation | Django)

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Thank you very much, it is working now!