[Django]-How to use Django to get the name for the host server?

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I generally put something like this in settings.py:

import socket

try:
    HOSTNAME = socket.gethostname()
except:
    HOSTNAME = 'localhost'
👤Craig Trader

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If you have a request (e.g., this is inside a view), you can look at request.get_host() which gets you a complete locname (host and port), taking into account reverse proxy headers if any. If you don’t have a request, you should configure the hostname somewhere in your settings. Just looking at the system hostname can be ambiguous in a lot of cases, virtual hosts being the most common.

👤Tobu

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If you need to get http(s)://hostname/ you can use the following:

request.build_absolute_uri('/')

All useful methods are listed here

👤Sofien

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Just add to @Tobu’s answer.
If you have a request object, and you would like to know the protocol (i.e. http / https), you can use request.scheme (as suggested by @RyneEverett’s comment).

Alternatively, you can do (original answer below):

if request.is_secure():
    protocol = 'https'
else:
    protocol = 'http'

Because is_secure() returns True if request was made with HTTPS.

👤azalea

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Try os.environ.get('HOSTNAME')

👤Ankit Jaiswal

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Basically, You can take with request.get_host() in your view/viewset. It returns <ip:port>

👤direwolf

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If you have a request object, you can use this function:

def get_current_host(self, request: Request) -> str:
    scheme = request.is_secure() and "https" or "http"
    return f'{scheme}://{request.get_host()}/'
👤Tobias Ernst

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request.get_raw_uri() # example https://192.168.32.181:10555/
👤jake_qwert

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To get my django server name I tried this

host = f"{ request.scheme }://{ request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR') }"
👤sultanmyrza

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