Change the Django Rest Framework Default Router api root?

Question

In development,

my defaultrouter works along the base url/domain of http://127.0.0.1:8000/, however the api is going to be hosted on http://website.com/test/location/

How do i change the default default router location so apiview,inner links, and the api work at http://website.com/test/location/ as the api root?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66051095/change-the-django-rest-framework-default-router-api-root

Answer 1

Your default router has nothing to deal with the domain. It only generates patterns to be matched after the domain name.

Let's say you have the following default router:

router = routers.DefaultRouter()
router.register('users', views.UserViewSet)

That means /users/ will be matched to some view no matter what the domain is. So for the developement process it will match 127.0.0.1:800/users/ and localhost:8000/users/. After you deploy it to website.com/, it will match website.com/users/

In most cases the domain is changed automatically as you deploy it to some platform or server.