id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
34461	Constructing urls outside the request cycle	Sarah Boyce	nobody	"There is a need to have some kind of URL outside the request cycle (such as sending emails which need to create a link). 
For constructing a correct `MEDIA_URL` / `STATIC_URL` we wanted to use the script prefix to allow for more dynamic changes (ie allow a user to move to a subpath without having to change multiple variables). In the request cycle you can use `get_script_prefix()` for this but outside the request cycle this isn't currently very achievable (see related tickets #34028 #16734).


There is a current proposal from Florian Apolloner
> I am really starting to lean towards introducing a setting (yes!) called `BASE_URL` that can be set to `https://mysite.com/subpath`. This would allow for a) generating URLs outside a request context and b) allow us to mostly ignore script prefix. We could also use a relative `STATIC_URL` and append it to `BASE_URL`. This way there would be just one setting that requires changing and many projects hopefully would make that configurable via env vars etc.
"	New feature	closed	Core (Other)	dev	Normal	wontfix		Florian Apolloner David Sanders Stewart Adam	Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0