diff --git a/client/package-lock.json b/client/package-lock.json
index 36195c7..432624e 100644
--- a/client/package-lock.json
+++ b/client/package-lock.json
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
         "@csstools/postcss-oklab-function": "^3.0.16",
         "@tanstack/eslint-plugin-query": "^5.43.1",
         "@types/js-cookie": "^3.0.6",
-        "@types/node": "^20.14.10",
+        "@types/node": "20.17.6",
         "@types/react": "^18.3.3",
         "@types/react-dom": "^18.3.0",
         "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^7.13.1",
@@ -61,8 +61,9 @@
         "postcss": "^8",
         "prettier": "^3.3.2",
         "prettier-plugin-tailwindcss": "^0.6.5",
+        "sonner": "^1.6.1",
         "tailwindcss": "^3.4.1",
-        "typescript": "^5.5.2"
+        "typescript": "5.7.2"
       }
     },
     "node_modules/@alloc/quick-lru": {
@@ -2180,12 +2181,13 @@
       "license": "MIT"
     },
     "node_modules/@types/node": {
-      "version": "20.14.10",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/node/-/node-20.14.10.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-MdiXf+nDuMvY0gJKxyfZ7/6UFsETO7mGKF54MVD/ekJS6HdFtpZFBgrh6Pseu64XTb2MLyFPlbW6hj8HYRQNOQ==",
+      "version": "20.17.6",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/node/-/node-20.17.6.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-VEI7OdvK2wP7XHnsuXbAJnEpEkF6NjSN45QJlL4VGqZSXsnicpesdTWsg9RISeSdYd3yeRj/y3k5KGjUXYnFwQ==",
       "dev": true,
+      "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
-        "undici-types": "~5.26.4"
+        "undici-types": "~6.19.2"
       }
     },
     "node_modules/@types/prop-types": {
@@ -7481,6 +7483,7 @@
       "version": "1.7.0",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/sonner/-/sonner-1.7.0.tgz",
       "integrity": "sha512-W6dH7m5MujEPyug3lpI2l3TC3Pp1+LTgK0Efg+IHDrBbtEjyCmCHHo6yfNBOsf1tFZ6zf+jceWwB38baC8yO9g==",
+      "dev": true,
       "license": "MIT",
       "peerDependencies": {
         "react": "^18.0.0 || ^19.0.0 || ^19.0.0-rc",
@@ -7982,7 +7985,9 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/typescript": {
-      "version": "5.5.3",
+      "version": "5.7.2",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/typescript/-/typescript-5.7.2.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-i5t66RHxDvVN40HfDd1PsEThGNnlMCMT3jMUuoh9/0TaqWevNontacunWyN02LA9/fIbEWlcHZcgTKb9QoaLfg==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "bin": {
@@ -8008,7 +8013,9 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/undici-types": {
-      "version": "5.26.5",
+      "version": "6.19.8",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/undici-types/-/undici-types-6.19.8.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-ve2KP6f/JnbPBFyobGHuerC9g1FYGn/F8n1LWTwNxCEzd6IfqTwUQcNXgEtmmQ6DlRrC1hrSrBnCZPokRrDHjw==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "MIT"
     },
diff --git a/client/package.json b/client/package.json
index bbdfce3..e2a7627 100644
--- a/client/package.json
+++ b/client/package.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     "format": "prettier -w src",
     "format:check": "prettier -c src",
     "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",
-    "prepare": "cd .. && husky client/.husky"
+    "prepare": "if [ \"$NODE_ENV\" != \"production\" ]; then cd .. && husky client/.husky; fi"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@hookform/resolvers": "^3.9.0",
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     "@csstools/postcss-oklab-function": "^3.0.16",
     "@tanstack/eslint-plugin-query": "^5.43.1",
     "@types/js-cookie": "^3.0.6",
-    "@types/node": "^20.14.10",
+    "@types/node": "20.17.6",
     "@types/react": "^18.3.3",
     "@types/react-dom": "^18.3.0",
     "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^7.13.1",
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@
     "postcss": "^8",
     "prettier": "^3.3.2",
     "prettier-plugin-tailwindcss": "^0.6.5",
+    "sonner": "^1.6.1",
     "tailwindcss": "^3.4.1",
-    "typescript": "^5.5.2"
+    "typescript": "5.7.2"
   }
 }
diff --git a/client/src/components/main/header/Navbar.tsx b/client/src/components/main/header/Navbar.tsx
index fd219dc..7bb6b8c 100644
--- a/client/src/components/main/header/Navbar.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/main/header/Navbar.tsx
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ function Links({ isHiddenWhenLg }: { isHiddenWhenLg: boolean }) {
         Upcoming Events
       </Link>
 
-      <Link className={`${onHoverStyle}`} href="/about">
+      <Link className={`${onHoverStyle}`} href="https://coexistaus.org/">
         About Us
       </Link>
 
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 46ee443..58f9c67 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -3,16 +3,18 @@ services:
     container_name: coexist-db
     image: postgres:16
     restart: unless-stopped
+    env_file: ./server/.env
     volumes:
-      - ${LOCAL_WORKSPACE_FOLDER:-.}/data/db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+      - db-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
     healthcheck:
       test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U postgres"]
       interval: 3s
       timeout: 3s
       retries: 5
-    env_file: ./server/.env
-    ports:
-      - 5432:5432
+    # Remove port mapping in production for security
+    #ports:
+    #  - "5432:5432"
+
   server:
     container_name: coexist-server
     build:
@@ -20,10 +22,14 @@ services:
       dockerfile: ./docker/server/Dockerfile
     restart: unless-stopped
     env_file: ./server/.env
+    depends_on:
+      - db
     ports:
-      - 8000:8000
-    volumes:
-      - ${LOCAL_WORKSPACE_FOLDER:-.}/server:/app
+      - "8000:8000"
+    # Remove code volume mounts in production
+    #volumes:
+    #  - ./server:/app
+
   client:
     container_name: coexist-client
     build:
@@ -31,11 +37,13 @@ services:
       dockerfile: ./docker/client/Dockerfile
     restart: unless-stopped
     env_file: ./client/.env
+    depends_on:
+      - server
     ports:
-      - 3000:3000
-    volumes:
-      - ${LOCAL_WORKSPACE_FOLDER:-.}/client:/app
-      - ignore:/app/node_modules
+      - "3000:3000"
+    # Remove code volume mounts in production
+    #volumes:
+    #  - ./client:/app
 
 volumes:
-  ignore:
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+  db-data:
diff --git a/docker/client/Dockerfile b/docker/client/Dockerfile
index e7492aa..7de3587 100644
--- a/docker/client/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/client/Dockerfile
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ COPY /docker/client/entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
 
 COPY ./client/package.json ./client/package-lock.json ./
 
-# Install ALL Dependencies
-RUN npm install
-
 # Copy Application code into a directory called `app`
 COPY ./client /app
 
@@ -21,5 +18,3 @@ COPY ./client /app
 # CMD commands get executed at container runtime!
 RUN chmod +x /entrypoint.sh
 CMD ["/entrypoint.sh"]
-
-# TODO: Production 
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diff --git a/docker/client/entrypoint.sh b/docker/client/entrypoint.sh
index 0173c5c..64ace39 100644
--- a/docker/client/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker/client/entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,58 +1,39 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/bin/sh
 
-echo "${APP_NAME^^} - NextJS CONTAINER STARTING..."
-echo $APP_NAME
+set -e
 
-# Display Docker Image / CI / Release details
-echo "Image Build Date/Time: " "$(cat /app/build_timestamp.txt)" "UTC"
+echo "$APP_NAME - NextJS CONTAINER STARTING..."
+echo "APP_NAME: $APP_NAME"
+
+# Display Build Date/Time if available
+if [ -f /app/build_timestamp.txt ]; then
+    echo "Image Build Date/Time: $(cat /app/build_timestamp.txt) UTC"
+fi
 
 echo "-----------------------------------------------------------"
 echo "APP_ENV: ${APP_ENV}"
 
-# # ====================================================================================
-# # Debug / Sanity check info
-# # ====================================================================================
-# echo "  "
-# echo "======= Current Dir / Files (Debug) ============================================================================="
-# pwd
-# ls -al
-
-# echo "  "
-# echo "======= Env Vars (Debug) ========================================================================================"
-# if [ "${APP_ENV^^}" != "PRODUCTION" ]; then
-#   # Only print environment vars in non-prod environments to prevent sensitive variables being sent to logging system
-#   printenv
-# fi
-
-# echo "  "
-# echo "======= Linux version (Debug) ==================================================================================="
-# cat /etc/os-release
-
-# echo "  "
-# echo "======= Node Path & Version (Debug) ==========================================================================="
-# node -v
-
-# Check for required env vars, exit as failure if missing these critical env vars.
-if [[ -z "${APP_ENV}" ]]; then
+# Check for required env vars
+if [ -z "${APP_ENV}" ]; then
     echo "█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████"
-    echo "█ CRITICAL ERROR: Missing 'APP_ENV' environment variables."
+    echo "█ CRITICAL ERROR: Missing 'APP_ENV' environment variable."
     echo "█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████"
-    echo "APP_ENV=" $APP_ENV
-    echo "░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░"
-    exit
+    echo "APP_ENV=${APP_ENV}"
+    exit 1
 fi
 
-# CI TEST DOWN THE TRACK
-
-# ====================================================================================
-# Run inbuilt nextjs server if ENV is LOCAL
-# ====================================================================================
-if [ "${APP_ENV^^}" = "DEVELOPMENT" ]; then
-    # Install dependencies (idk why it's not installing the latest ones in the docker image)
+# Start the application based on APP_ENV
+if [ "${APP_ENV}" = "PRODUCTION" ]; then
+    echo "Starting Next.js application in production mode"
+    # Build and run for prod
     npm install
-    # Run developments
-    echo "  "
-    echo "======= Starting inbuilt nextjs webserver ==================================================================="
-    npm run dev
-    exit
-fi
\ No newline at end of file
+    npm run build
+    npm start
+elif [ "${APP_ENV}" = "DEVELOPMENT" ]; then
+    echo "Starting Next.js application in development mode"
+    npm install
+    exec npm run dev
+else
+    echo "Unknown APP_ENV: ${APP_ENV}"
+    exit 1
+fi
diff --git a/docker/server/Dockerfile b/docker/server/Dockerfile
index 3e886bd..0f74719 100644
--- a/docker/server/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/server/Dockerfile
@@ -1,21 +1,41 @@
+# Use the official Python image
 FROM python:3.12-slim
 
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends postgresql-client g++ libssl-dev && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-RUN pip install --upgrade pip && pip install poetry
-
-RUN poetry config virtualenvs.in-project false
-RUN poetry config virtualenvs.create false
+# Install system dependencies
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends \
+    build-essential \
+    libssl-dev \
+    libpq-dev \
+    postgresql-client && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
+# Set work directory
 WORKDIR /app
 
-COPY ./docker/server/entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
+# Install Poetry
+RUN pip install --upgrade pip && \
+    pip install poetry
 
+# Configure Poetry
+RUN poetry config virtualenvs.create false
+
+# Copy the application files
 COPY ./server/pyproject.toml ./server/poetry.lock ./
+RUN poetry install --no-dev --no-interaction --no-ansi
+
+COPY ./server/ ./
 
-RUN poetry install
+# Collect static files
+RUN python manage.py collectstatic --noinput --verbosity 2
 
-COPY ./server ./
+# Create log directory
+RUN mkdir -p /var/log/accesslogs && \
+    chmod -R 755 /var/log/accesslogs
 
+# Copy entrypoint script
+COPY ./docker/server/entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
 RUN chmod +x /entrypoint.sh
-CMD ["/entrypoint.sh"]
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+
+# Start the application
+ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
diff --git a/docker/server/entrypoint.sh b/docker/server/entrypoint.sh
index 5d36abf..2dd3032 100644
--- a/docker/server/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker/server/entrypoint.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+set -e
+
+export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=api.settings
+
 # Wait until Database is available before continuing
 printf "\n" && echo "Checking Database is up"
 # using psql
@@ -17,9 +21,11 @@ python manage.py migrate --noinput
 echo "Collecting static files"
 python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
 
-# Create Django Superuser
-echo "Creating Django Superuser"
-python manage.py createsuperuser --noinput
+# Check if superuser exists
+if [ "$APP_ENV" = "DEVELOPMENT" ]; then
+  echo "Creating Django Superuser"
+  python manage.py createsuperuser --noinput || true
+fi
 
 # Run inbuilt Django server if ENV is development
 if [ "${APP_ENV^^}" = "DEVELOPMENT" ]; then
diff --git a/server/.env.production b/server/.env.production
index 30d7605..5c6ba5f 100644
--- a/server/.env.production
+++ b/server/.env.production
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ APP_NAME=DjangoAPI
 
 APP_ENV=PRODUCTION
 
+# =============
 # TO BE CHANGED
+# =============
+
 API_SECRET_KEY="supersecretkey"
 API_ALLOWED_HOSTS=".localhost 127.0.0.1 [::1]"
 
diff --git a/server/api/settings.py b/server/api/settings.py
index 87f084d..df31234 100644
--- a/server/api/settings.py
+++ b/server/api/settings.py
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 """
 
 import os
+import datetime
+
 from pathlib import Path
 
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
@@ -155,18 +157,17 @@
 # Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/howto/static-files/
 
-PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(
-    os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
-)  # <- '/' directory
+STATIC_URL = "/static"
+
+PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
 
-STATIC_URL = "/static/"
+# Will need to configure this for actual deployment
+STATIC_ROOT = "/var/www/example.com/static/"
 
-# STATIC_ROOT is where the static files get copied to when "collectstatic" is run.
-# STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, "server", "static")
+STATICFILES_DIRS = [
+    "/static"
+]
 
-# This is where to _find_ static files when 'collectstatic' is run.
-# These files are then copied to the STATIC_ROOT location.
-STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, "server", "static"),)
 
 # Default primary key field type
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/settings/#default-auto-field
@@ -176,6 +177,6 @@
 
 # DRF Simple JWT Configuration
 SIMPLE_JWT = {
-    # "ACCESS_TOKEN_LIFETIME": datetime.timedelta(seconds=10),
-    # "REFRESH_TOKEN_LIFETIME": datetime.timedelta(seconds=30),
-}
+    "ACCESS_TOKEN_LIFETIME": datetime.timedelta(seconds=10),
+    "REFRESH_TOKEN_LIFETIME": datetime.timedelta(seconds=30),
+}
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