Django app on it's own subdomain

Question

Did a few searches but couldn't find anything good about this problem.

I've got the following setup. / (index), /blog/ and /about/. The way I do want it to be displayed, running only one Django instance is blog.domain.com (for my blog app) and all the other urls to run under (www.)domain.com/.

I could surely hardcode the links, forcing this setup (basically the webserver will listen to blog.domain.com and do a forward as domain.com/blog/ but the user will still see blog.domain.com) but I want to be able to resolve my url-configs the proper way but still get them to point to domain.com or blog.domain.com depending on the url (app) being resolved.

Is there a good way of doing this? I was thinking of a custom templatetag to use instead of {% url my_resolve_name slug="test" as test %}.

Answer 1

There is no builtin support for it, but many people (including me) have done it in a hackish sort of way.

http://uswaretech.com/blog/2008/10/using-subdomains-with-django/
http://uswaretech.com/django-subdomains/

Answer 2

try this on nginx:

server { 
    listen 80;
    server_name www.example.com;

    if ($host ~* "^blog\.example\.com") {
        rewrite  ^(.*)$ /blog$1 permanent;
        break;
    }
}

this rewrites all requests to blog.example.com/some/params/ to www.example.com/blog/some/params