Your database is empty, so the first step is to sync it. We only want to sync the SHARED_APPS.
For your convenience, here's the contents of SHARED_APPS:
Just run the command below on your shell to sync SHARED_APPS. Make sure your environment
has Django and django-tenant-schemas available.
$ python manage.py sync_schemas --shared
When you're done refresh this page.
{% elif no_public_tenant %}django-tenant-schemas uses the request's hostname to try to find a tenant.
When a match is found,
PostgreSQL's search path
is automatically set to be this tenant.
For this request, django-tenant-schemas couldn't find any tenant for the current address ({{ hostname }}).
When no tenant is found, django-tenant-schemas normally returns a 404, but since
this is a tutorial and no tenant exists yet, we let it proceed.
Let's assume you have your main website at trendy-sass.com. The recommended structure is
to put your tenants at subdomains, like tenant1.trendy-sass.com,
tenant2.trendy-sass.com and so forth.
django-tenant-schemas requires a tenant for all addresses you use, including your main website,
which we will from now on refer to as the public tenant.
Our model is called Customer and looks like this (taken from models.py):
class Client(TenantMixin):
name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
description = models.TextField(max_length=200)
created_on = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True)
Let's create a tenant for our main website, located at {{ hostname }}. Open up a shell and enter the django shell:
$ ./manage.py shell
To create a tenant run the following commands:
from customers.models import Client
Client(domain_url='{{ hostname }}',
schema_name='public',
name='Trendy SaSS',
description='Public Tenant').save()
Done! django-tenant-schemas will now be able to locate our public tenant and won't return 404. Refresh this page to see the next step.
We've already created the public tenant, now it's time to create some tenants for subdomains. I assume you're running this on your local machine,
so the easiest way to simulate domains is to edit your hosts file.
Here are instructions for all platforms.
I'll assume you're on Linux.
$ nano /etc/hosts
Add the following lines:
127.0.0.1 tenant1.trendy-sass.com 127.0.0.1 tenant2.trendy-sass.com
We're basically tricking our computer to think both tenant1.trendy-sass.com and tenant2.trendy-sass.com point to 127.0.0.1.
Once you're done, try visiting tenant1.trendy-sass.com,
you should get a django 404. As we have previously mentioned, we don't have a tenant there yet, so a 404 will be thrown.
We can now add tenants using these URLs and our project will be able to find them and identify them as our tenants. Back to the django shell:
$ ./manage.py shell
from customers.models import Client
Client(domain_url='tenant1.trendy-sass.com',
schema_name='tenant1',
name='Tenant1 - Awesome',
description='Our first real tenant, awesome!').save()
Saving a tenant that didn't exist before will create their schema and sync TENANT_APPS automatically. You should see
the following lines as the result.
=== Running syncdb for schema: tenant1 Creating tables ... Creating table auth_permission Creating table auth_group_permissions Creating table auth_group Creating table auth_user_groups Creating table auth_user_user_permissions Creating table auth_user Creating table django_content_type Installing custom SQL ... Installing indexes ... Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)
This means your tenant was installed successfully. Now create the second tenant.
Client(domain_url='tenant2.trendy-sass.com',
schema_name='tenant2',
name='Tenant2 - Even Awesome-r',
description='A second tenant, even more awesome!').save()
Now try visiting tenant1.trendy-sass.com and tenant2.trendy-sass.com or refresh this page.
{% else %}Well done, you have completed the tutorial! Use the bottom menu to see your tenants.
There are some interesting features that we did not cover.
South migrations.