[Answer]-Django home page inactive when admin active

As described in Part 3 of the Tutorial, you need to add additial entries to your urls.py. It’s unclear how you had a homepage view without any entries (besides for the admin), if you were running the development server with ./manage.py runserver.

If you have a a viewable homepage at http://localhost:8000/ with an entry in your urlpatterns like:

url(r'^$', 'polls.views.index'),

as long as polls was on the python path, had a views.py in it which contained a callable named index.