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