1. Introduction

Alternative implementation of django "sites" framework based on settings instead of models.

The main motivation for make this package is solve in a simple way to make urls with correspondig domain in each environment (production, development, etc…​)

Also, I consider that use database for store a site configuration, is slighty overkill.

This package do same or similar thing that original "sites" framework of django, but does not intends to solve the same use cases.

2. Requirements

  • Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 or 3.6

  • Django 1.8, 1.9 and 2.0

3. User guide

3.1. Installation

The simplest way to install django-sites is using pip:

pip install django-sites

3.2. Configure

Add add django_sites to django installed apps list:

INSTALLED_APPS += ('django_sites',)

And configure your default sites:

# settings.py
SITES = {
    "dev": {"domain": "localhost:8000", "scheme": "http", "name": "localhost"},
    "pro": {"domain": "somehost.com", "scheme": "https", "name": "somehost"},
}

# settings_development.py
# defaut site id for development environment
SITE_ID = "dev"

# settings_production.py
# defaut site id for production environment
SITE_ID = "pro"

3.3. Python Api reference

3.3.1. django_sites.get_current()

Returns a current site instance depending on settings.SITE_ID value. It can raise django_sites.exceptions.SitesNotConfigured.

3.3.2. django_sites.get_by_id(id)

Returns a site instance corresponding to specified id. It can raise django_sites.exceptions.SiteNotFound exception in case of key not matches any configured site.

>>> from django_sites import get_by_id as get_site_by_id
>>> site = get_site_by_id("pro")
>>> site.domain
'somehost.com'
>>> site.scheme
'https'
>>> site.name
'somehost'

3.3.3. django_sites.reverse(*args, **kwargs)

This function works like django’s reverse function but appends the current site scheme, and domain to the url.

>>> from django_sites import reverse as sites_reverse
>>> sites_reverse('ns:foo')
'http://example.com/foo'

3.4. Jinja2 Api Reference

If you are also django-jinja user, django-sites exposes two helper functions for use it from jinja2 templates.

3.4.1. Reverse urls in templates

Jinja2 template example
<a href="{{ sites_url('foo') }}">Link</a>
<a href="{{ sites_url('foo', site_id='pro') }}">Link</a>
Rendered result
<a href="http://localhost:8000/foo">Link</a>
<a href="https://somehost.com/foo">Link</a>

3.4.2. Reverse static urls

Jinja2 template example
<script src="{{ sites_static('lib.js') }}"></script>
<script src="{{ sites_static('lib.js', site_id='pro') }}"></script>
Rendered result
<script src="http://localhost:8000/static/lib.js"></script>
<script src="https://somehost.com/static/lib.js"></script>

4. License

Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Andrey Antukh <niwi@niwi.nz>

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