If you're talking about ALLOWED_HOSTS, make sure you use something like ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['.example.com']. The dot is significant.
You will also need to set SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN = '.example.com' so cookies work across subdomains. On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 4:12:24 AM UTC-8, Abraham Varricatt wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to implement custom subdomains on a customer site and am having > trouble understanding how the HOST option in settings.py works. The > requirement is that if a user logs in, they should see their own username > as the subdomain. So for example if we have 3 users - mark, alice and bob. > Now, if mark is logged in, he should interact with http://mark.example.com > . If alice is logged in, she should access http://alice.example.com and > so on. > > I've implemented this via custom middleware. What the middleware does is; > if whoever is accessing the site is a logged in user, check if they are > accessing the site via their respective subdomain entry. If not, prepend > their username to their request and issue a redirect to their web-browser. > The idea here is that if a logged in user (mark) tried to access > http://www.example.com/food/apple then he would be redirected to > http://mark.example.com/food/apple > > This works half-way. My users are able to login to the site, but for some > cases, where I need to call 3rd party APIs (and some jquery), things aren't > working as they should. It's kindof difficult to describe the issue, but > what I discovered is that in my settings.py file, if I set HOST= > mark.example.com , then the site works perfectly for user mark, but is > partly broken for the others. If I set HOST=alice.example.com, things > work perfectly for alice, but not anyone else. > > Does anyone have any good explanation for this behavior? Or should I be > trying a different approach? We're running django 1.5. > > Puzzled, > Abraham V. > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/5d71e4bd-06ac-4d83-9d4a-a4e809d5024b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
