How can I get the domain name of my site within a Django template?

I've discovered the {{ request.get_host }} method.

If you use the "request" context processor, and are using the Django sites framework, and have the Site middleware installed (i.e. your settings include these):

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "django.contrib.sites",
    ...
]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    ...
     "django.contrib.sites.middleware.CurrentSiteMiddleware",
    ...
]

... then you will have the request object available in templates, and it will contain a reference to the current Site for the request as request.site. You can then retrieve the domain in a template with:

    {{request.site.domain}}

and the site name with:

    {{request.site.name}}

In a Django template you can do:

<a href="{{ request.scheme }}://{{ request.META.HTTP_HOST }}{{ request.path }}?{{ request.GET.urlencode }}" >link</a>

You can use request.build_absolute_uri()

By default, it will return a full path.

But if you pass in a parameter like this:

request.build_absolute_uri('/')

This would return the domain name.

I figure what we want is an alternative to the existing url tag, so I wrote a new tag:

from django.template import Library
from django.urls     import reverse

@register.simple_tag(takes_context = True)
def fullURL(context, name, *args, **kwargs):
    request = context['request']
    return f'{request.scheme}://{request.get_host()}{reverse(name, args = args, kwargs = kwargs)}'

Then in your template you can have this...

{% extends "myapp/email/email_base.html" %}

{% load mytags %} {# Replace mytags with whatever the name of your custom tags calss is. #}

{% block content %}
<p>You can use <a href="{% fullURL 'signup' %}">this link</a> to get started with your account. We look forward to seeing you soon!</p>
{% endblock content %}

Then when you generate this, you just need to remember to pass the request into the context, like so...

from django.template.loader import render_to_string

def sendEmail(subject, to, template, **context):
    html = render_to_string(f'myapp/email/{template}.html', context | {'subject': subject})
    # ... and so on with the rest of my function for sending email...

As alluded to in @furins response there may be issues with proxy servers. I found this myself when using Apache and uWSGI – request.get_host or request.build_absolute_uri would return the proxy host (127.0.0.1:9191…).

However, someone has helpfully posted a guide to fixing this:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/django-behind-a-proxy-fixing-absolute-urls

Although this is a relatively old answer, it is still relevant to django 3.2 and python 3.9.

Just in case the answer disappears in the future, here is the gist of it:

settings.py

# Setup support for proxy headers
USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST = True
SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')

apache.conf

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ...
    RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto 'https' env=HTTPS

    ProxyPass / http://10.0.0.3/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://10.0.0.3/
    ...
</VirtualHost>

With these settings request.get_host and request.build_absolute_uri reference the client requested host and not the proxy host.

These below can get a full url and parts of url:

def myview(request):
    request.build_absolute_uri()
    # http://localhost:8000/admin/store/product/

    request.build_absolute_uri('/')
    # http://localhost:8000/

    request.build_absolute_uri('/')[:-1]
    # http://localhost:8000

    request.scheme
    # http

    request.META['HTTP_HOST']
    # localhost:8000

    request.path    
    # /admin/store/product/