How can I solve the broken home page in the root folder?

[Thames Khi]

I followed a simple tutorial to create a sample application in DJango. Here is my code for urls.py in the root folder:

from django.conf.urls import url, include

from django.contrib import admin

#from data import views

urlpatterns = [

    

url(r'^data/', include('data.urls')),

url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),

I get this error:

Page not found (404)

Request Method:	GET
Request URL:	http://<my IP>/

Using the URLconf defined in stockprices.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:

1. ^data/
2. ^admin/

The current URL, , didn't match any of these.

You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page. 

The app http://<my IP>/data/ works fine.

If I remove the line: url(r'^data/', include('data.urls')),

then the root app works a treat:

It worked!

Congratulations on your first Django-powered page.

Is there a way to solve this or is there a way to redirect the page to another app? I really do not want to give out a website address with <my url>/data

Thank you very much.

Khi

[ludovic coues]

Try "url(r'^/', include('data.urls'))," in url_patterns. This should do what you want.

Alternatively, you can set a simple view on r'^$' that will redirect to your main app.

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[Thames Khi]

Thank you very much.

I added the following to main site urls.py:

url(r'^$', views.home, name='home'),

and added the following to the /data/views.py file.

def home(request):

return HttpResponse("<h1>Main Page</h1>")

This somewhat makes sense, just wondering why the main site does not require a views.py file

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[Melvyn Sopacua]

On Tuesday 31 January 2017 06:51:35 Thames Khi wrote:

 

> I added the following to main site urls.py:

 

and I assume this also contains:

from data import views

 

> url(r'^$', views.home, name='home'),

>

> and added the following to the /data/views.py file.

>

> def home(request):

> return HttpResponse("<h1>Main Page</h1>")

>

> This somewhat makes sense, just wondering why the main site does not

> require a views.py file

 

It does in the real world, but you deligated the response to the 'data' app. The main project is just an app like any other. It is only special because it is the entry point of the project, but nothing prevents you from adding models and views there as well.

 

When homepages become complicated this is exactly what people do. Either that, or they create a "homepage" app.

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Melvyn Sopacua