How can I create a django url specific to a user?

Question

I am interested in making my urls customised for each user, something like username.mysite.com/home but I am not sure how to do this with django.

I am also curious if this might work in development (so as to have username.localhost:8000/home) or not.

Thank you.

Answer 1

There is another way as well. What you can do is have Middleware that gets the url, parses the subdomain and then renders a user profile page.

This is assuming you are using a custom profile page and not the default profile page.

#in yourapp.middleware
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
import logging
import yourapp.views as yourappviews
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
class AccountMiddleware(object):

def process_request(self, request):
    path = request.META['PATH_INFO']
    domain = request.META['HTTP_HOST']
    pieces = domain.split('.')
    username = pieces[0]
    try:
        user = User.objects.get(username=username)
        if path in ["/home","/home/"]:
            return yourappviews.user_profile(request, user.id)

#In yourapp.views.py

def user_profile(request,id):
    user = User.objects.get(id=id)
    return render(request, "user_profile.html", {"user": user})

#In settings.py

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    #... other imports here
    'yourapp.middleware.AccountMiddleware'
)