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How to use Django to get the name for the host server?

I need the name of the hosting server instead of the client name?

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I generally put something like this in settings.py:

import socket

try:
    HOSTNAME = socket.gethostname()
except:
    HOSTNAME = 'localhost'
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If you have a request (eg, 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.

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Did you try os.environ.get('HOSTNAME') ?

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