Settings depending on host

[grillermo]

Any ideas on how to import settings depending on the host? Middleware approach is a good idea?

[grillermo]

My solution, right below django-hosts middleware, i added this middleware:

from django.conf import settings

class Settings(object): def process_request(self,request): if 'another_domain.com' in str(request.host): settings.GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID = 'custom_data' settings.FACEBOOK_APP_ID = 'custom_data'

[jezdez]

Yep, that's how I handle it myself, too.

[grillermo]

Ok i have to add, that this causes problems, because you change the settings for the entire django process, so if another user comes in in one domain and you change settings, it will change also for users coming to the other domain this django app handles. I just ran into this bug in a production site :P What i had to do was add settings PER request, like so

import os
from django.conf import settings

class DumpObject: pass

class Settings(object):
    def process_request(self,request):
        # the dumpobject is here just to keep the settings.property  syntax similar, it could have been a dict
        request.settings = DumpObject()
        # and then we will update our dumpobject with the real settings
        for setting in dir(settings):
            if not setting.startswith('__'): # avoiding the internal __ properties
                setattr(request.settings, setting, getattr(settings,setting))
        if 'another_domain' in str(request.host):
            # and override the settings depending on the host, ONLY for this request
            request.settings.GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID = 'UA-38203365-1'

So i had to change all my code that was doing settings.property to request.settings.property. I usually only access settings on the context of a request, so this worked out pretty good for me.