Hi there,
New to Django and Web server setups and need some help correlating the
different pieces to match our needs..I've read thru the site framework,
searched the threads here and found a collection of posts that are related
to multi-site hosting etc .. but it's still quite a bit to digest on the
best way to proceed for the configuration/setup we have in mind.
In terms of what setup/needs we have..
- Single Database for the Company
- Subdomain (Site) for each division
- some models will use the CurrentSiteManager to filter rows. Others are
shared (ie. lookups) company-wide. Those will only be available to the
superuser account.
- Admin will be used and is the same for all sites.
- All custom templates, views etc are the same - the only "difference" I
can see is perhaps the site name being dynamic .. if that causes duplicating
assets we can live with a generic name.
As far as I can tell for our needs - the only thing that is really different
at this point is needing to have the site id set/different for each
subdomain.
Also as far as I can tell from the docs .. that means having a separate
instance of django in the apache/mod_python configuration for each
subdomain.. instead of one instance that handles the site filtering based on
the "incoming" subdomain. Have I got that right?
Questions
1. If multiple instances is the only way does that mean
a) I have to copy the entire project directory multiple times for each
subdomain and keep them in sync?
b) If multiple copies would all those copies be *identical* (ie. Secret
keys, etc) with only the Site Id setting different?
c) Or can I have a common structure and just override the site id with
i) a small snippet of code or
ii) just by having different setting files
2. If multiple instances are the only way to go .. are there implications
for the DB settings and transaction management and caching that I should be
aware of .. that would be different if everything was under a single
instance. For example.. get next number in sequence kind of stuff.
3. Going thru the threads here I see some "examples" of having one instance
to handle multiple domains but...
a) it's not clear if they would then flow thru the Admin (a requirement for
us)
b) the code is not posted anyway. Either the author hasn't posted the code
and/or some of the pastebin examples have expired so I can't try out parts
for myself.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
P.S. The docs and examples are generally superb .. thanks for that .. it's
my lack of understanding about Web stuff and Django conventions/directory
structures that prevents me from making the leaps necessary to figure out
the best way to proceed and or implications I may not be aware of.
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