Django Admin - FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME is appended twice to URL when POSTing

Question

I have deployed Django to a sub directory (I don't have full control over the server so can't change the way it's deployed).

I added to my settings:

FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = '/hub06'
STATIC_URL = FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME + '/static/'

Now when I go to /admin/hub06, it's working properly, I can login and browse all admin pages. As soon as I do a POST request though (adding a new model), the URL gets corrupted.

For example, when editing /hub06/admin/myapp/car/1

When I submit the form, it redirects to /hub06/hub06/admin/myapp/car/

So it adds script name twice. This is only for POST requests in Django admin.

Answer 1

Is this a linux host? is it running apache, nginx? It all depends on how your web server is configured.

If you really must have a url prefix like /hub06/ then you will need to update any settings in settings.py that return a url such as LOGIN_URL, STATIC_URL, LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL etc to contain the prefix.

I don't think you need to use FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME. Comment that bit out in the settings.py and update urls.py to add the following for example:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib.auth.views import login
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns2 = patterns('',
    url(r'^$', 'yourapp.views.home', name='Home'),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^hub06/', include(urlpatterns2)),
)

Let me know how you go.