django-dynamicsites-lite

django-dynamicsites-lite is a Django app that expands the standard django.contrib.sites package to allow for:

- Sites identified dynamically from the request via middleware
- No need for multiple virtual hosts at the webserver level
- 301 Redirects to canonical hostnames
- A site may have its own urls.py and templates
- Allows for environment hostname mappings to use non-production hostnames (for use in dev, staging, test, etc. environments)

Configuration

 Before you install dynamicsites, make sure you have configured at least 1 site in the admin panel, because once dynamicsites is installed, it will try to lookup a site from request.get_host(), and, if none exists, will always throw 404

1. Add the app to INSTALLED_APPS

 INSTALLED_APPS = (
 ...
 'dynamicsiteslite',
 )

2. Add the middleware to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

 MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
 ...
 'dynamicsiteslite.middleware.DynamicSitesMiddleware'
 )

3. Add the context processor to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS

 TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
 ...
 'dynamicsiteslite.context_processors.current_site',
 )

4. Configure dynamicsites by adding SITES_DIR, SITES_PACKAGE, DEFAULT_HOST, and HOSTNAME_REDIRECTS to settings.py

 SITES_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'sites')
 SITES_PACKAGE = 'sites'
 DEFAULT_HOST = 'www.your-default-site.com'
 HOSTNAME_REDIRECTS = {
 # 'redirect-src-1.com': 'www.redirect-dest-1.com',
 ...
 }

5. If your local environment (eg. test, dev, staging) uses different hostnames than production, set the ENV_HOSTNAMES map as well

 ENV_HOSTNAMES = {
 'my-site.dev': 'www.your-default-site.com',
 ...
 }

6. make sites dir (from the SITES_DIR setting above) and put a __init__.py file inside

7. make a site dir for each site you're hosting (eg. mkdir sites/www_mysitesdomain_com)

Requirements:

• Python
• Django