Multiple Sites under single Django project

Question

Is it possible and correct to have multiple sites under single django project. So that there will be globally shared sittings file,urls files along with global shared 'apps' for all the sites and a common admin interface for all the sites under the single django project. Each site might have its own setting,urls and templates that will be overridden or imported dynamically into the parent settings file.

Could anyone please tell me how to achieve this using Python2.6 + Django 1.2.1 + Apache2.2 + mod_wsgi. As I am a bit confused with the virtualhost need to be supplied while using the mod_wsgi.

As per the above requirement I am planning to keeping the wsgi file in the main django project directory so that the main settings will be imported and within the main setting I am planning to import the requested sites settings dynamically.Is it possible this way using Apache + mod_wsgi. Please advice.

OR

Instead of global django project do I have to make a globally shared module for importing the global setting and url details into site specific settings and urls.

I would like to make better reuse of the code rather than making redundant changes in each sites.

Please advice.

Answer 1

Yes, this is entirely possible. The sites can even share data.

The sites framework enables this - for documentation, see here:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/contrib/sites