Django tutorial HTTP Error 404

[Paweł Balawender]

Hi

I'm a Django newbie on Windows and try to follow its official tutorial. I've done everything - as I think - completely fine, but at the last step I get a 404 Error, more precisely, that:

Page not found (404)

Request Method:	GET
Request URL:	http://127.0.0.1:8000/

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

1. ^polls/
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.

My directories are laid out like that:

#venv - directory of my virtual environment

venv\

testico\

mysite\

 __pycache__

__init__.py

settings.py

urls.py

wsgi.py 

polls\

__pycache__ 

migrations

 __init__, admin, apps, models, test - .py 

 urls.py

views.py 

db.sqlite3

manage.py  

#virtual environment files and directories below

Include, Lib, Scripts, pyvenv.cfg

 where testico\mysite\urls.py is just copypasted from tutorial's page, so:

from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

and testico\polls\urls.py is copypasted too, so:

from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
]

 views is a short code, copied too:

from django.shortcuts import render

# Create your views here.
from django.http import HttpResponse


def index(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello, world. You're at the polls index.")

Nothing could help, so, as you've seen higher, I've just copied everything from the official website.

Here is what do I do at command prompt:

and in my web browser, g chrome:

I have no idea what to do :/ I've read at least 5 answers to problems like mine on stackoverflow, but their solves dont solve that. Can you tell me why doesn't it work? I tried to run it outside of that venv directory, but it changes nothing.

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On Sunday 26 March 2017 07:41:06 Paweł Balawender wrote:

 

> I'm a Django newbie on Windows and try to follow its official tutorial

> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/intro/tutorial01/>. I've done

> everything - as I think - completely fine

 

Almost. You're told to test runserver *before* creating the app. This is because the "it worked" page is a little magic that depends on DEBUG=True and only the admin urlpatterns registered.

 

As soon as you add more urls the magic stops working and since you did not define a homepage url, it is a genuine 404.

 

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Melvyn Sopacua

[ludovic coues]

This might be the most often asked question on this mailing list.

I'm pretty sure the code is perfectly fine, but you missed a little
step in the tutorial.
The third line of the error message is saying you opened http://127.0.0.1:8000/
The "Write your first view" chapter finish with "Go to
http://localhost:8000/polls/ "
That's why you get an error.

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