I added a get_absolute_url function to one of my models.
def get_absolute_url(self):
return '/foo/bar'
The admin site picks it up and adds a "view on site" link to the detail page for that object (when I put a real URL there instead of "/foo/bar").
The problem is instead of going to http://localhost:8000/foo/bar, it goes to http://example.com/foo/bar.
What am I doing wrong?
You have to change default site domain value.
The funniest thing is that "example.com" appears in an obvious place. Yet, I was looking for in in an hour or so.
Just use your admin interface -> Sites -> ... there it is :)
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()
You can change this in /admin/sites if you have admin enabled.
If you are on newer versions of django. the data migration is like this:
from django.conf import settings
from django.db import migrations
def change_site_name(apps, schema_editor):
Site = apps.get_model('sites', 'Site')
site = Site.objects.get(id=settings.SITE_ID)
site.domain = 'yourdomain.com'
site.name = 'Your Site'
site.save()
class Migration(migrations.Migration):
dependencies = [
('app', '0001_initial'),
]
operations = [
migrations.RunPython(change_site_name),
]
When you have edited a Site instance thought the admin, you need to restart your web server for the change to take effect. I guess this must mean that the database is only read when the web server first starts.
