Thank you to all who have replied to my query. I do not think I need to use the sites framework because my subdomains are not on different servers and hence are not really different sites. Possibly what I am working with are actually pseudo-subdomains and not subdomains in the real sense. I will explain what I am intending to do below:
Let us say that I have a domain "example.com" This site contains subdomains like the following: subdomain1.example.com subdomain2.example.com and so on. In my urls.py if I want to map the subdomain1.example.com to some function and I need to know what regular expression I should use. Another problem I am facing is that I testing this on localhost so I need to get a URL that I believe looks like "subdomain1.127.0.0.1: 8000" instead if "127.0.0.1:8000/subdomain1" and get urls.py to recognise this. I know that I may need to write a middleware class that intercepts every URL which I have implemented but I have no idea how to specify the URL in my href attribute in my link. so that it is taken as subdomain1.127.0.0.1: 8000 instead of 127.0.0.1:8000/subdomain1 which is incorrect. FYI I am working on a Ubuntu Linux machine and the Django development server. I am sorry if I have misunderstood your answers above but IMHO I do not think I need to use the sites framework as this is a fairly simple thing. Thank you. Yours sincerely, Nanda On Jul 18, 1:47 am, Steve Holden <holden...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/17/2010 12:38 PM, nandu wrote: > > > Dear Folks, > > > After researching the topic of using subdomains with Django I have > > found that it is does not seem to be a straight forward thing to do. > > > I have also found many websites showing methods of how to do this, but > > there is one aspect that none of them seem to explain. That is how > > does one specify the URL for the subdomain in urls.py if I had a > > subdomain like "something.example.com". > > > I would also appreciate it if someone could point me in the right > > direction in terms of how to use subdomains with django as each > > website seems to specify a different method, and I have no idea which > > one is the best. The URLs of the websites I have looked at are below: > > >http://uswaretech.com/blog/2008/10/using-subdomains-with-django/ > > >http://thingsilearned.com/2009/01/05/using-subdomains-in-django/ > > >http://www.nerdydork.com/django-accounts-on-subdomains.html > > >http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1119/ > > > I am also looking for a solution that avoids making many changes to > > the web application when it is about to be deployed. > > > Please forgive my ignorance in this matter. > > Servers in different subdomains are different sites, so you may want to > read up about Django's sites framework. > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/sites/ > > regards > Steve > -- > Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 > DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010 http://djangocon.us/ > See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ > Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ > > -- > Tel/Toll-free: +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 > DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010 http://djangocon.us/ > See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ > Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
