[Django]-How does one include the server hostname in a django error email?

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You can use the SERVER_EMAIL or EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX setting.

In your settings.py:

 import socket
 SERVER_ADMIN = 'alerts+{0}@mydomain.com'.format(socket.gethostname())

or

 import socket
 EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = '[my_django_app - {0}] '.format(socket.gethostname())
👤Sam Dolan

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If you want the httpd server name you can get it from the request.

site_name = request.META['SERVER_NAME']

This isn’t necessarily the hostname of the machine, but it is the server name alias in the Apache/IIS directive for the site. Alternately, if you absolutely need the server’s machine name:

import socket
host_name = socket.gethostname()

UPDATE:

Now that you have the hostname of the particular server, you can add that to the error emails in a couple of ways. You could write your own error notification system, or as @sdolan mentioned you can change the SERVER_ADMIN or EMAIL SUBJECT_PREFIX directives in settings.py. Or, you can change your SERVER_EMAIL directive. You can use the "{0}".format(socket.gethostname()) syntax, or you can use the string joining of a list of strings "".join(string_parts_list).

# settings.py
import socket
SERVER_EMAIL = "".join(['webmaster@', socket.gethostname(), '.com'])
👤Furbeenator

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Python’s socket.gethostname() (socket docs) is one method.

from socket import gethostname; print gethostname()

You can also get some parameters from os.uname() (os docs)

import os; print os.uname()[1]

Would get the ‘nodename’.

👤jvc26

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