But for now, let's check these important **conceptual ideas**. These concepts also apply to any other type of web API. 💡

## Security - HTTPS

In the [previous chapter about HTTPS](https.md){.internal-link target=_blank} we learned about how HTTPS provides encryption for your API.

We also saw that HTTPS is normally provided by a component **external** to your application server, a **TLS Termination Proxy**.

* For new features, the feature should be mentioned in the [Release Notes](platforms/documentation/docs/src/docs/release/notes.md).

The most common way to do it is to have a file `requirements.txt` with the package names and their versions, one per line.

You would of course use the same ideas you read in [About FastAPI versions](versions.md){.internal-link target=_blank} to set the ranges of versions.

For example, your `requirements.txt` could look like:

```
fastapi>=0.112.0,<0.113.0
pydantic>=2.7.0,<3.0.0
```

And the `items_per_user` would keep its default value of `50`.

## Settings in another module

You could put those settings in another module file as you saw in [Bigger Applications - Multiple Files](../tutorial/bigger-applications.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

For example, you could have a file `config.py` with:

```Python
{!../../../docs_src/settings/app01/config.py!}
```

And then use it in a file `main.py`:

---
hide:
  - navigation
---

<style>
.md-content .md-typeset h1 { display: none; }
</style>

<p align="center">
  <a href="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com"><img src="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/img/logo-margin/logo-teal.png" alt="FastAPI"></a>
</p>
<p align="center">
    FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
</p>
<p align="center">

Sebastián Ramírez <******@****.***> 1714689451 -0700

Ben Leggett <******@****.***> 1714764582 -0400

Shireesh Anjal <******@****.***> 1714671477 +0530

```Python hl_lines="7"
{!../../../docs_src/first_steps/tutorial003.py!}
```

!!! note
    If you don't know the difference, check the [Async: *"In a hurry?"*](../async.md#in-a-hurry){.internal-link target=_blank}.

### Step 5: return the content

```Python hl_lines="8"
{!../../../docs_src/first_steps/tutorial001.py!}
```

```

and then it won't include it in the OpenAPI schema.

## Mounting a sub-application

If you need to mount a sub-application (as described in [Sub Applications - Mounts](sub-applications.md){.internal-link target=_blank}) while also using a proxy with `root_path`, you can do it normally, as you would expect.