Sites for Django

How to use the Sites package for Django.

Follow instructions in documentation to install the Sites package. Then create a migration in one of your apps.

from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import migrations

def set_site_name(apps, schema_editor):
    Site = apps.get_model('sites', 'site')
    try:
        site = Site.objects.get(id=1)
    except Site.DoesNotExist:
        site = Site()
    site.name = "Astrobiology"
    site.domain = "astrobiology.nasa.gov"
    site.save()

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('sites', '0002_alter_domain_unique'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.RunPython(set_site_name),
    ]

Enter the latest migration from the "sites" app as a dependency to ensure there is a database table for sites.

On the development computer, run ./manage shell and change the domain of the site object to 127.0.0.1:8000.