Django project for multiple clients

[Steven Nash]

We are design a DJango based application to be used my multiple clients.  Each client will have there own database but share the same code base.

In the past, when I've done something like this, I have configure a separate virtual host for each client.

This time we are thinking about using URL routing to select the clients database, and creating a small Django Webapp to allow an admin team to setup new clients etc.

I'd be interested to hear how others have tackled this, I have Googled quite a bit on this topic.

Steve

[Simon Charette]

This concept is called multi-tenancy.

I suggest you have a look at the django-tenant-schema application which isolate each tenant in it's own PostgreSQL schema.

You could also build you own solution using a middleware and a database router.

Simon

[Steven Nash]

This looks like it could be a good solution.

Steve

[Gabriel - Iulian Dumbrava]

If your clients are using different subdomains, like client1.webapp.com, client2.webapp.com then you can have separate settings file per subdomain and completely isolate the client data, but still use the same virtualenv and codebase. You must also take care of the file upload/access because you also need to isolate it.

[Benjamin Scherrey]

This is what we've done successfully for multiple projects. Django makes it fairly straightforward.

  -- Ben

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