It all started when I added the get_absolute_url method on my model objects:

# includes a mysterious example.com ????? @models.permalink def get_absolute_url(self): return ('person_detail', [str(self.id)])

When you do that, the admin site automatically picks it up and adds some nice 'view on site' buttons on all of your individual object pages...:

The problem is, the links are being attached to a mysterious 'example.com' domain. I left it aside the other day, cause of it was the last of a long series of weird bugs, but today the solution appeared to be quite simple (found it on stackoverflow too).

The solution:

Django has a nice 'sites' framework which comes by default with the contrib application. If you are like me, you probably have wondered at the beginning of your django-adventure what that was for, and then just forgot about it. Well, I realized today that actually the sites framework is really useful when you are running multiple sites and want, for example, to share stuff between them:

The Django-powered sites LJWorld.com and Lawrence.com are operated by the same news organization – the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas. LJWorld.com focuses on news, while Lawrence.com focuses on local entertainment. But sometimes editors want to publish an article on both sites.

The brain-dead way of solving the problem would be to require site producers to publish the same story twice: once for LJWorld.com and again for Lawrence.com. But that’s inefficient for site producers, and it’s redundant to store multiple copies of the same story in the database.

The better solution is simple: Both sites use the same article database, and an article is associated with one or more sites.

Another thing the sites-framework does - and this is what solves the example.com problem - is setting the 'default site' for the django-admin button behaviour. And there you go, that's where that unexpected domain name was originating from....

This value (= 'example.com') is stored in the database, so it's enough to change it through the admin interface, and everything should go into its own place :-) For example, below I changed it into the localhost value/port I'm running django on...