How does Django manage different subdomains on one Django project? - django

Question

I want my Django project to be accessible at many different endpoints. For one app, I want it accessible at app.domain.com and for another app I want it accessible at dashboard.domain.com. How can I achieve this? I am using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Route 53.
I tried looking at Django's djangoproject.com and their Github repo, as they do this. However, I couldn't figure it out. Thanks!

Answer 1

You can define two settings.py file, with two associated urls.py files :
app_settings.py
from my_project.settings import *
ROOT_URLCONF = 'my_project.app_urls'
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['app.domain.com']
dashboard_settings.py
from my_project.settings import *
ROOT_URLCONF = 'my_project.dashboard_urls'
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['dashboard.domain.com']
Define your urls for each website respectively in my_project/app_urls.py and my_project/dashboard_urls.py
Then start two instances of your django project (with uwsgi, gunicorn ou whatever you use) with those two distinct settings files (using DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable for example).
This way, both instances shares the same codebase but exposes distinct urls.
For example, using uwsgi, you could have those two files (with distinct ports) :
app.ini
[uwsgi]
http = 127.0.0.1:8001
module = my_project.wsgi
processes = 4
threads = 2
pidfile = app.pid
env = DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=my_project.app_settings
dashboard.ini
[uwsgi]
http = 127.0.0.1:8002
module = my_project.wsgi
processes = 4
threads = 2
pidfile = app.pid
env = DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=my_project.dashboard_settings