diff --git a/pinaxcon/settings.py b/pinaxcon/settings.py
index 93e0f9b2126a9abcd952660d118cc4a5f36238ae..67541dd77d30fc70d221758e475a018444022da3 100644
--- a/pinaxcon/settings.py
+++ b/pinaxcon/settings.py
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["localhost", ".herokuapp.com", ".northbaypython.org"]
 # system time zone.
 TIME_ZONE = os.environ.get("TZ", "America/Los_Angeles")
 
+
+# Use SSLRedirectMiddleware
+SSL_ON = os.environ.get("DJANGO_SSL_ON", True)
+SSL_ALWAYS = os.environ.get("DJANGO_SSL_ALWAYS", False)
+
 # Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here:
 # http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
 LANGUAGE_CODE = "en-us"
@@ -118,6 +123,8 @@ MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
     "django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware",
     "reversion.middleware.RevisionMiddleware",
     "django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware",
+    "ssl_redirect.middleware.SSLRedirectMiddleware",
+
 ]
 
 ROOT_URLCONF = "pinaxcon.urls"
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 36a1dc51d405ce37e77239ee5559c7e271f5c787..d68731417e0a35a97d06f8cf47efc21ea6232c64 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ dj-static==0.0.6
 dj-database-url==0.4.0
 pinax-pages==0.4.2
 pinax-boxes==2.1.2
+django-ssl-redirect==2.0
 django-libsass==0.7
 django-markdown-deux==1.0.5
 django-sitetree==1.8.0