Might also want to try django multihost :)
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Aryeh Leib Taurog <v...@aryehleib.com>wrote:
> On Feb 14, 5:08 am, Jason Drane <drane.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Forgive me if this question offends you more advanced users. I am
> > begun down the road of learning Django. I am curious if it is possible
> > to place Django in the root of my server and reference it to each of
> > multiple sites in development, similar to php, python, etc.
>
> This kind of question comes up now and then. I believe this setup
> isn't recommended. However, it's not difficult to do, either. I
> think it makes a lot of sense for someone with several small low-
> traffic sites, especially where server resources are limited (say on a
> shared host account). You could accomplish this by configuring the
> web server to map each domain to a different base path in the url.
> For example, using lighttpd/fastcgi you would have something like
> this:
>
> #--- lighttpd.conf --
> fastcgi.server = (
> "/django.fcgi" => (
> "main" => ( "socket" => "/var/www/django.sock", "check-local"
> => "disable", )
> )
> )
>
> $HTTP["host"] == "site1.example.com" {
> alias.url = ( "/static" => "/var/www/site1/static" )
> url.rewrite-once = (
> "^(/static/.*)$" => "$1",
> "^(/.*)$" => "/django.fcgi/site1$1",
> )
> }
>
> $HTTP["host"] == "secondsite.example.com" {
> alias.url = ( "/static" => "/var/www/secondsite/static" )
> url.rewrite-once = (
> "^(/static/.*)$" => "$1",
> "^(/.*)$" => "/django.fcgi/secondsite$1",
> )
> }
> #-----
>
> Then you set up your django urls like this
>
> #--- urls.py
> from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
>
> urlpatterns = patterns('',
> url(r'^site1/', include('site1.urls')),
> url(r'^secondsite/',
> include('secondsite.urls')),
> )
> #-----
>
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