Django Admin's "view on site" points to example.com instead of my domain.

Question

I added a get_absolute_url function to one of my models.

def get_absolute_url(self):
    return '/foo/bar'

The admin site picks it up and adds a "view on site" link to the detail page for that object (when I put a real URL there instead of "/foo/bar").

The problem is instead of going to http://localhost:8000/foo/bar, it goes to http://example.com/foo/bar.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You have to change default site domain value.

Answer 2

You can change this in /admin/sites if you have admin enabled.

Answer 3

The funniest thing is that "example.com" appears in an obvious place. Yet, I was looking for in in an hour or so.

Just use your admin interface -> Sites -> ... there it is :)

Answer 4

weirdly, if you set this programmatically it doesn't work... until you press the save button in the admin interface...?