Django Admin's “view on site” points to example.com instead of my domain

Question

I added a get_absolute_url function to one of my models.

def get_absolute_url(self):
    return \'/foo/bar\' 

The admin site p

Answer 1

As others have mentioned, this is to do with the default sites framework.

If you're using South for database migrations (probably a good idea in general), you can use a data migration to avoid having to make this same database change everywhere you deploy your application, along the lines of

from south.v2 import DataMigration
from django.conf import settings

class Migration(DataMigration):

    def forwards(self, orm):
        Site = orm['sites.Site']
        site = Site.objects.get(id=settings.SITE_ID)
        site.domain = 'yoursite.com'
        site.name = 'yoursite'
        site.save()