Django的多个站点

Question

Let's imagine I have two sites foo.com and bar.com. They both are on the same server and now running separate Django instances and apache to serve it. Of course each Django instance eats the memory.

While mainly those sites are the same systems, but with different apps loaded - maybe it is possible somehow to have for example one Django instance running and have multiple sites using it? Then I will save memory for the one instance in a particular example.

It is possible to have different sites with their url.py files, loaded apps and so on? And if this is the right way to go?

Any tips, ideas are welcome.

Thanks, Ignas

Answer 1

Yes it is definitely possible to have different sites with different urls.py and shared apps. I had to share a backend data between multiple sites. I just created 2 wsgi config files. And 2 settings files. The sites are very smiliar and didn't warrant two seperate projects. This allows me to use one django project and backend between multiple sites. I don't quite know if this is what you were asking though...

Answer 2

My own research today on the same topic leads me to the conclusion that you'll most likely have to have only one settings.py per Django instance/process. And the sticking point there is only one MEDIA_URL and one MEDIA_ROOT, which means all your projects media will have to be in the same location. And actually Django 1.3 has a new static file process that just goes through all the media of your seperate apps and puts them in one spot because for some reason it demands that. If you're using earlier versions I guess you can do it by hand.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/

Answer 3

uWSGI can serve more applications from one instance.

See "Two Pinax site in two virtualenv in two virtualhost with only one uWSGI instance" in uWSGI examples and VirtualHosting Mode .