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xintron
xintron

Reputation: 326

Django app on its own subdomain

I've got the following directory structure:

/ (index)
/blog/
/about/

Running only one Django instance, I want the URL to display as blog.domain.com (for my blog app), but all the other URLs to run under (www.)domain.com/.

I could surely hardcode the links, forcing this setup (basically the webserver will listen to blog.domain.com and do a forward as domain.com/blog/ but the user will still see blog.domain.com) but I want to be able to resolve my URL-configs the proper way but still get them to point to domain.com or blog.domain.com depending on the url (app) being resolved.

Is there a good way of doing this? I was thinking of a custom templatetag to use instead of {% url my_resolve_name slug="test" as test %}.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2041

Answers (2)

bmaeser
bmaeser

Reputation: 1010

try this on nginx:

server { 
    listen 80;
    server_name www.example.com;

    if ($host ~* "^blog\.example\.com") {
        rewrite  ^(.*)$ /blog$1 permanent;
        break;
    }
}

this rewrites all requests to blog.example.com/some/params/ to www.example.com/blog/some/params

Upvotes: 0

agiliq
agiliq

Reputation: 7758

There is no builtin support for it, but many people (including me) have done it in a hackish sort of way.

http://uswaretech.com/blog/2008/10/using-subdomains-with-django/
http://uswaretech.com/django-subdomains/

Upvotes: 1

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