Making Django oblivious of the subfolder it's running in

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I’m running two django projects from the same server. The first instance runs at port 8000, the second one runs at 8010. My server is configured so that requests for www.mywebhoster.com/test/ go to port 8000, requests for www.mywebhoster.com/rbp_website/ go to 8010. Now I want to make each instance of django oblivious of the fact that they are being run in subfolders. Otherwise I have to add “test/” or “rbp_website/” in front of every entry in my urls.py. I’m very unexperienced with configuring servers, so any hints would be helpful.

Is this something that I do at the server level? Or is there a setting in Django that allows me to clarify this once?

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Assuming that you’re running separate uwsgi containers for test and rbp_website, you handle this at the server / uwsgi layer.

In your uwsgi.ini file, add

mount = /test=test.wsgi:application
manage-script-name = true

This allows uwsgi to effectively strip off the initial /test from the referenced url within the application.

(Note, since nginx handles my static files directly, I do have separate static subdirectories in my nginx config pointing to the different directories. I don’t have uwsgi service static files.)

Ken

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