Hello, I'm trying to implement custom subdomains on a customer site and am having trouble understanding how the HOST option in settings.py works. The requirement is that if a user logs in, they should see their own username as the subdomain. So for example if we have 3 users - mark, alice and bob. Now, if mark is logged in, he should interact with http://mark.example.com . If alice is logged in, she should access http://alice.example.com and so on.
I've implemented this via custom middleware. What the middleware does is; if whoever is accessing the site is a logged in user, check if they are accessing the site via their respective subdomain entry. If not, prepend their username to their request and issue a redirect to their web-browser. The idea here is that if a logged in user (mark) tried to access http://www.example.com/food/apple then he would be redirected to http://mark.example.com/food/apple This works half-way. My users are able to login to the site, but for some cases, where I need to call 3rd party APIs (and some jquery), things aren't working as they should. It's kindof difficult to describe the issue, but what I discovered is that in my settings.py file, if I set HOST=mark.example.com , then the site works perfectly for user mark, but is partly broken for the others. If I set HOST=alice.example.com, things work perfectly for alice, but not anyone else. Does anyone have any good explanation for this behavior? Or should I be trying a different approach? We're running django 1.5. Puzzled, Abraham V. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/b0657dc4-d35c-4562-9f87-c276cfacf00c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
