Hi!
I'm on a monumental task here, I've decided to get one Django instance
running hundreds of websites.
I've run in to couple of shortcomings with django:
1. Global SITE_ID does not work since some requests belong to
different site. I've created middleware that adds request.site_id
based on hostname of request.
2. User may be on multiple sites, but still should not be able to
login to other sites! (Here is a slight problem since authentication
backend assumes that username and password is only thing required.
This is not the case, I need to verify the site id from
request.site_id and check that user is listed in that site as user.)
3. MEDIA_URL could be per site basis. (STATIC_URL could be global)
This one is not a problem because django supports it already, but
anyone wondering to try out it's good to know:
4. Website manager must be able to create dynamical urlconfs (I'm now
implementing database based urlconf loading), this is rather simple
since I can inject the urlconf to request.urlconf (Django supports
this already).
Is there anyone else doing similar task? I have currently FlatPage app
running perfectly with this, only thing I needed to change from
flatpage view was following:
...
# Get request's site id, fallback to settings.SITE_ID
site_id = getattr(request, 'site_id', settings.SITE_ID)
f = get_object_or_404(FlatPage, url__exact=url,
sites__id__exact=site_id)
...
I think this SITE_ID per request is a great idea, worth thinking for
Django itself.
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