In a django web application, how do you give users their own subdomain?

Question

I\'m starting a new web app project using Django and Pinax. I want to be able to give my users unique domain names like Wordpress and other sites do : username.wordpre

Answer 1

You need to handle this via your webserver. If you have Django urls like...

/users//

... then use rewrite rules in the webserver to map .domain.com to domain.com/users//.

If you're using Apache, you can read up here. Otherwise, each webserver has their own conventions but all will support the notion of url rewrites.