[Django]-In Django, How do you write the url pattern for '/' and other root-based urls

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Figured out what the issue is. The proper url_pattern on the project level is:

 urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),
    url(r'^$', 'pages.views.root'),
    url(r'', include('pages.urls')),
 )

When this is in place, ‘/about’ and other simple paths direct properly.

Thanks everyone!

👤jay

7👍

Try this, for url.py on the project level:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
# Examples:
url(r'^$', 'apps_name.views.home', name='home'),

# Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
# url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

# Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

(r'^about/', include('about.urls')),
)

and then the url.py for the app about

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$', direct_to_template, {"template": "about/about.html"}, name="about"),
)

Take into account that regular expression are evaluated from top to bottom, then if the path fits the regexp it will enter. To learn more about regexp google it or try the great book from Zed Shaw about regexps

4👍

Note that from Django version 2.0 the URL pattern has changed to use django.urls.path() Check Example here: link

from django.urls import path

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    # ex: /polls/
    path('', views.index, name='index'),
    # ex: /polls/5/
    path('<int:question_id>/', views.detail, name='detail'),
    # ex: /polls/5/results/
    path('<int:question_id>/results/', views.results, name='results'),
    # ex: /polls/5/vote/
    path('<int:question_id>/vote/', views.vote, name='vote'),
]

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About the url method:

url(r'^$', 'pages.views.root')

url is deprecated in Django 3.1, it’s good to use re_path instead.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/urls/#s-url

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/urls/#re-path

Note: The r'^$'pattern WON’T work with path function, and will give you a misleading error that the route could not be found.

You have to use re_path(r'^$', [etc]) every time you use a regular expression instead of a simple string in pattern.

👤Niloct

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