We do something like this with middleware in the Carbon Account[1]:

http://code.thecarbonaccount.com/trac/browser/trunk/calculator/middleware/autobrand.py

Hope this helps

Tom

[1] http://www.thecarbonaccount.com

On Jan 13, 3:10 pm, Donn <donn.in...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Can anyone help me get some extra info in settings.py?
>
> I have a domain that I want to point to various different Django apps
> depending on the 'hostname' portion of the domain name.
>
> ***.mydomain.com has (for ***):
> www
> comics
> stuff
>
> I want that first portion (www, comics, stuff) available in settings.py so I
> can tweak some vars for the apps within the project. How do I do that?
>
> I have tried:
> import socket
> blah=socket.gethostname()
>
> But that returns the hostname of the server, which does not seem related to
> the "virtual" names above. (I confess to being totally out of my depth when
> it comes to apache and so forth, but have I got it working to a point.)
>
> Thanks,
> \d
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