Linking to Django Admin from 1.3

[eric.frederich]

Hello,

I am moving from 1.0.2 to 1.3 and am having problems linking to the
admin site from within a template.
I used to have this in my template...

<p><a href="{% url the-django-admin None %}">Django Admin</a>

And I used to have this in my urls.py

url(r'^admin/(.*)' , admin.site.root, name='the-django-
admin'),

I'm sure this was hacky even back in 1.0.2
How should I link to the admin site's index from within a template?

I cannot hard code it to /admin because while this would work on
development, on production it needs to be /apps/admin
So I need to use the URL resoving mechanism so that the prefix gets
picked up based on which environment it is on.

So... simple question. How do I link to the Django admin site from
within a template?

Thanks,
~Eric

[Alasdair Nicol]

From the django docs on url namespaces [1]

Namespaced URLs are specified using the : operator. For example, the main index page of the admin application is referenced using admin:index. This indicates a namespace of admin, and a named URL of index.

So you link to the admin index in your template using:

{% url admin:index %}

For Django 1.3, the documented way [2] to include the admin site is:

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

Regards,
Alasdair Nicol

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/urls/#url-namespaces
[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/intro/tutorial02/

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Try:

{% url admin:index %}

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#reversing-admin-urls

[eric.frederich]

Well... two people replied with the same answer so rather than picking favorites I'll just reply to myself.

This seems to work but looks a bit quirky.

When I use {% url admin:index %} the link that gets generated actually has "admin/(.*)" in it.
This even shows up in the url when I click on it.

Is this okay... is it a bug?

[eric.frederich]

Nevermind... this was my bad.  I removed (.*) from my urls.py
This is now working... thanks a bunch.

This is what I get for developing an app that works and then not touching it for over a year.
I really need to keep up with these things.