Django- session cookies and sites on multiple ports

Question

I have multiple Django projects running on one server using gunicorn and nginx. Currently they are each configured to run on a unique port of the same IP address using the serve

Answer 1

Just change the SESSION_COOKIE_NAME. The SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN doesn't support port numbers afaik. So they are all the same for your apps.

Answer 2

Another solution that doesn't require hard-coding different cookie names for each site is to write a middleware that changes the cookie name based on the port the request came in on.

Here's a simple version (just a few lines of code).