In this paper, we study the validity of the sub-supersolution method for the equation
\begin{equation*}\begin{cases}-\mbox{div}(K(x)\nabla u)=K(x)|x|^{\alpha-2}f(x,u) \,\mbox{in } {\mathbb{R}}^{N},\\u \gt 0 \,\mbox{in } {\mathbb{R}}^{N},\end{cases}\end{equation*} where
$N \geq 3$,
$K(x)=exp(|x|^{\alpha}/4)$,
$\alpha\geq 2$ and
$f$ is a continuous function, with hypotheses that will be given later. We apply the method to cases where
$f$ is singular, where
$f$ behaves like a logistic function, showing in both cases the existence and uniqueness of a positive solution.