I'm testing deploying my first Django project using Apache.
I use Django's test client to perform an "internal" GET from my own server, which worked OK locally, but not runnning on the actual server.
The client ends up getting Django error messages, like
Page not found (404) Request Method: GET Request URL: http://testserver/polls/forms/test1/
How can I get the client's GET to work on the actual server, having the it be performed on the actual http: //my_actual_server_name.something/polls/forms/test1 instead of "testserver" ?
I tried setting SERVER_NAME= ‘my_actual_server_name.something’ in the settings.py file but that's not it.
Django's test client doesn't actually make HTTP requests, it just makes a request object and passes it to your middleware/views.
If your goal is to make an http request to your own server, an easy way is to install requests and do something like
# Some server on the network
requests.get("http://myserver.com/polls/forms/test1/")
# or some server running on the same machine
requests.get("http://12.0.0.1:8000/polls/forms/test1/")
If you just want to use the functionality of some view, you should move that logic into a function and call that from both the view and your other code.
If you're curious about how the test client doesn't make http requests, you can look at the test client's code in the django source (client.get() calls client.generic() which calls client.request() which instantiates WSGIRequest() and then passes that object to your app - which is the request that you receive in your views).