Routing according also to hostname

[veena]

There should be a possibility to route urls even according to hostname.

It's quite often especially in blog sites that users get 3rd domain eg. ​http://username.example.com

In Django url router doesn't take hostname in consideration.

You can write own middleware, where you can rewrite username.example.com to something like example.com/user/username/ in process_request() function. But then function like "reverse()", decorator like "login" or template tag like "{% url %}" are not able to construct whole url with hostname back now.

In case of implementation routing with hostname there could be simple syntax in urls like that:

urlpatterns = (
  ('^forum/$', forum) # normal route
  ('^/(username)\.example\.com/forum/$', user_forum) # route with domain with http protocol
  ('^//(username)\.example\.com/forum/$', user_forum) # or syntax with double slashes to have a more impact to visibility and parallel to http://
  ('^s//(username)\.example\.com/forum/$', secure_user_forum) # route with domain with https protocol
)

There should be some enhancement to decouple hostname from route. For example:

  ('^//(username)\.SETTINGS_DOMAIN_WILDCARDS\.[a-zA-Z]{2-4}/forum/$', user_forum)

Or using some special mark:

  ('^//(?P<username>)(?site)/forum/$', user_forum) # complete with domain from actual Site or RequestSite object
  ('^//(?P<username>)(?site=2)/forum/$', user_forum) # complete with domain with ID 2 from Site object

In reverse functions proper url with hostname should be considered.

I think there is need to more clarify all possible circumstances they can occure before implementing of this feature would be start. It could be nice feature in 1.1 version of Django.

[veena]

There should be (?P<username>) instead of (username) in first two examples.

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Milestone post-1.0 deleted

[skip]

#5034 may address this issue in that reverse() and consequently {% url %} respect the overridden urlconf.

[Jannis Leidel]

You might want to have a look at the django-hosts app: ​http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-hosts/

[Aymeric Augustin]

Change UI/UX from NULL to False.

[Aymeric Augustin]

#16139 was a duplicate.

[Aymeric Augustin]

This has been solved by external apps and I'm happy with that solution.

Django should remain focused on the mainstream use cases.

This one isn't unheard of, but it's hardly common.