Subdomain support in Sitemaps

[anilashanbhag@…]

Google currently supports adding subdomain urls to sitemaps.
For example example.com/sitemap.xml can contains links to sub1.example.com and sub2.example.com.

Reference: ​https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/webmasters/w4gMRNFHMlA/24pUYqi69mkJ

The current django sitemaps framework cannot handle without having to override the get_urls function. One possible easy fix which I am using currently is:

for item in self.paginator.page(page).object_list:
    loc = self.__get('location', item)
    if not '://' in loc:
        loc = "%s://%s%s" % (protocol, domain, loc)

instead of

for item in self.paginator.page(page).object_list:
    loc = "%s://%s%s" % (protocol, domain, self.__get('location', item))

This basically checks if the past returned by location is an absolute path. If yes, it does not append the root domain to it.

[anonymous]

If this fix sounds good, I can probably submit a pull request for the same.

[pirosb3]

Is anyone doing this? if not I will prepare a patch.

[Aymeric Augustin]

This isn't an API, it's a hack.

Generally speaking, I'm not convinced that django.contrib.sitemaps should attempt to do this. Django has a fairly strong assumption that a single instance serves a single domain. The current excepted way to serve multiple domains is with multiple instances and django.contrib.sites.