I think there are a few ways of doing this in previous messages, but here's what has worked for me, using a custom context processor.
In settings, I add whatever custom variables I want, including this: APP_BASE = "http://www.example.com/"; I have an app called home, and in the views.py I put this: --- """ A request processor that returns dictionary to be merged into a template context. Function takes the request object as its only parameter and returns a dictionary to add to the context. These are referenced from the setting TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS and used by DjangoContext. """ from django.conf.settings import APP_BASE def set_vars(request): """ Returns custom context variables required by this app from settings.py """ context_extras = {} context_extras['APP_BASE'] = APP_BASE return context_extras --------- You could add other custom variables to this. In settings again, I added to... TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ( ... "django.models.home.set_vars", ) In the template use <a href="{{ APP_BASE }}thing/somethingelse/">... The one gotcha with this is you must remember to use DjangoContext in your views: from django.core.extensions import DjangoContext as Context But then you have to do that to use any of the template context processors. Derek
