How to temporarily move a django site into a subdirectory (for testing) ?

Question

I am in the process of deploying a new Django site to replace a current Wordpress blog. As I get it setup, I want to test everything in the domain's subdirectory before I switch things to the root and "go live". For example: http://example.com/django/

Editing my .htaccess file allows me to redirect things without a hitch (I can see the Django site and my wordpress site still works), however, I am not sure how to tell Django to view http://example.com/django/ as the BASE URL (rather than just http://example.com/) ... I tried setting my SITE domain but that didn't help.

Currently, all my pages get a 404 response - they they aren't matching any url patterns (because none of my url patterns start with django/).

I looked for a way to set a BASE_URL but can't find any. Ideas? I only want to do this for a couple hours while I test everything to make sure it is working and then swap the settings in the .htaccess file and run it on the main site.

Answer 1

Set the following in your Apache directive:

    PythonOption django.root /django

Then django will trim /django off the front of every URL request.