django-registration - how do i change example.com in the email?

Question

I have the django-registration setup and it sends emails - yay!

However, it's decided that it would be ace to call my site "example.com", which is not the name I decided to use. Cool name, but not for me.

How do I change example.com to something else? I read somewhere that I go to the admin page but - spoiler alert - I've never used the admin page in django and am not actively planning on this currently (but maybe someday?)

So I go to the admin page - /admin/sites/site/ - and sure enough I can see "example.com" and "domain name". But now what? I added my sites domain name and "display name", but how do I select to use it? I even deleted example.com!

However, the email insists on still sending out example.com. All the sites I read just say "use admin", but I don't know if maybe my admin is broken (which would be odd, as I really haven't touched it) or if there is a link i'm missing?

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The entry you saw originally on the admin/sites/site/ page, with example.com and domain name, is the one you should simply edit for the quickest results (instead of adding a new Site object).

What's really happening?

In your settings file, Django automatically defines a SITE_ID property when you create your project, which is by default set to 1. This points to the example.com Site you see in the admin. If you want to use the Site object you created, or change Site objects later when you need the functionality, you can change that SITE_ID property to the id of the Site object you created. Hope this helps!