middleware.py

from django.contrib.sites.models import Site
from django.core.urlresolvers import set_script_prefix


class ScriptPrefixMiddleware(object):
    """ Sets up url resolvers to return absolute urls
    
    """
    def process_request(self, request):
        set_script_prefix("http://%s" % Site.objects.get_current().domain)
        return None

settings.py

# Django settings template
from os import path

PROJECT_ROOT = path.dirname(path.realpath(__file__))

DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG

ADMINS = (
    ('John Doe', 'email@example.com'),
)

MANAGERS = ADMINS


DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3'  
DATABASE_NAME = 'site.db'    
DATABASE_USER = ''           
DATABASE_PASSWORD = ''       
DATABASE_HOST = ''           
DATABASE_PORT = ''           

# Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here:
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
# although not all choices may be available on all operating systems.
# If running in a Windows environment this must be set to the same as your
# system time zone.
TIME_ZONE = 'America/Detroit'

# Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here:
# http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

SITE_ID = 1

# If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not
# to load the internationalization machinery.
USE_I18N = True

# Absolute path to the directory that holds media.
# Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/"
MEDIA_ROOT = path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'assets')

# URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
# trailing slash if there is a path component (optional in other cases).
# Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com", "http://example.com/media/"
MEDIA_URL = '/assets/'

# URL prefix for admin media -- CSS, JavaScript and images. Make sure to use a
# trailing slash.
# Examples: "http://foo.com/media/", "/media/".
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/admin-media/'

# Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
SECRET_KEY = 'REPLACE_ME'

# List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source',
    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source',
)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.transaction.TransactionMiddleware',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'urls'

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'templates'),
)

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.admin',
)

urls.py

# Default Django URL config
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.views import login, logout
from django.conf import settings

admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')), 
    url(r'^admin/(.*)', admin.site.root),
    url(r'^login/$', login, {'template_name': 'login.html'}, name='login'),
    url(r'^logout/$', logout, {'template_name': 'logout.html'}, name='logout')
)

urlpatterns += patterns('',
    (r'^assets/(?P<path>.*)$',
     'django.views.static.serve',
     {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT,
     'show_indexes': True}),
)

utils.py

from django.db.models import Q
from django.http import HttpResponse, Http404
from django.template import loader, Context, RequestContext
from django.views.generic.list_detail import object_list


def render_response(request, template, **kwargs):
    """ Custom version of the Django render_to_response shortcut """
    mimetype = kwargs.pop('mimetype', None)
    if request is not None:
        c = RequestContext(request, kwargs)
    else:
        c = Context(kwargs)
    t = loader.get_template(template)
    return HttpResponse(t.render(c), mimetype=mimetype)


def search_results(request, queryset, search_fields, params='', **kwargs):
    query_string = request.GET.get('q', '')
    page = request.GET.get('p', 1)
    search_terms = query_string.split()
    
    results = queryset
    
    if search_terms:
        query = Q()
        for term in search_terms:
            field_query = Q()
            for field in search_fields:
                field_query |= Q(**{field + '__icontains': term})
            query &= field_query        
        results = results.filter(query).distinct()
        
    extra_context = kwargs.pop('extra_context', {})
    extra_context['query_string'] = query_string
    extra_context['page'] = page
    extra_context['params'] = params
    extra_context['result_count'] = results.count()
    
    return object_list(request, results, page=page,
                       extra_context=extra_context, **kwargs)