Accessing Heroku's url root in Django settings.py

Question

I need to access the root url of my Heroku app. I have several apps for this project (e.g., staging, production) and I'd like to programmatically set this value in my settings file. What I want is:

URL_ROOT = 'http://silly-name-1234.herokuapp.com'

As suggested here, I have tried the following:

import socket
HOSTNAME = socket.gethostname()
URL_ROOT = HOSTNAME

But, this doesn't seem to work

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '12 at 19:21

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You should do

heroku config:add BASE_IRI=http://silly-name-1234.herokuapp.com at the heroku cli

after that do a os.environ.get('BASE_IRI', 'localhost') in your settings.py

answered Oct 23 '12 at 19:21

Pratik Mandrekar

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Thanks! This worked well. I also found this Heroku documentation to be useful: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars – Rob Oct 24 '12 at 15:13
What does the IRI stand for? BASE_IRI seems an unusual choice. – dgh Jan 17 '13 at 04:58
Yeah I found it in some places. It comes from the non-English part of the world. It is URI (Uniform resource identifier) internationalized beyond ascii to unicode standards for URIs in Arabic, Chinese et al. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_Resource_Identifier – Pratik Mandrekar Jan 17 '13 at 06:16

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '12 at 15:53

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Try os.environ.get('HOSTNAME')

answered Oct 23 '12 at 15:53

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This returns 'None', both on my local machine and when deployed on Heroku. – Rob Oct 23 '12 at 16:36

Accessing Heroku's url root in Django settings.py

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