Get current server ip or domain in Django

Question

I have a util method in Python Django project:

def getUserInfo(request):

    user = request.user
    user_dict = model_to_dict(user)
    user_dict.pop("password")
    user_dict.pop("is_superuser")
    user_dict["head_img"] = user.head_img.url # there is `/media/images/users/head_img/blob_NOawLs1`

I want to add my server domain or ip in the front of it, like:

http://www.example.com:8000/media/images/users/head_img/blob_NOawLs1

How to get current server ip( or domain )?

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EDIT

I am not going to get the remote ip, I just want to get the server ip. I mean, I write the Django as backend server, when it is running, how can I get the server ip? or domain.

Answer 1

You can get the hostname from the request like this (docs):

request.get_host()

and the remote IP of the client like this (docs):

request.META['REMOTE_ADDR']

To get the server IP is a bit tricky, as shown in this SO answer, which gives this solution:

import socket
# one or both the following will work depending on your scenario
socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
socket.gethostbyname(socket.getfqdn())