How can I enable the admin interface on a project I'm building?

[C.J.S. Hayward]

I am building and customizing a Pinax site, and wish to customize the page title (now all page titles begin with "Pinax Social Demo"). An ack though the project and the virtualenv found the string "Pinax Social Demo" found the project's fixtures/initial_data.json but changing the value there did not cause new pages to display with a custom title (as it probably shouldn't; the filename suggest it is to initially populate text fixtures or conceivably initialize a database setting rather than be dynamically queried per page load).

I tried to log in to the admin interface, hoping to find something I could configure there, but got a 404 with or without a trailing slash. I went to make necessary uncommenting in the base urls.py, as this behavior is typical of a Django project where the developer has not opted in to add the interface, but everything I can see in urls.py looks like a setup to opt in to admin interface availability.

For any curious readers, my urls.py reads:

from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.views.generic.simple import direct_to_template

from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

from bookmarks.feeds import BookmarkFeed
from bookmarks.models import BookmarkInstance
from microblogging.feeds import TweetFeedAll, TweetFeedUser,                    TweetFeedUserWithFriends
from microblogging.models import Tweet
from swaps.models import Offer
from tagging.models import TaggedItem
from wakawaka.models import WikiPage

from pinax.apps.account.openid_consumer import PinaxConsumer
from pinax.apps.blog.feeds import BlogFeedAll, BlogFeedUser
from pinax.apps.blog.models import Post
from pinax.apps.photos.models import Image
from pinax.apps.topics.models import Topic
from pinax.apps.tribes.models import Tribe


handler500 = "pinax.views.server_error"


tweets_feed_dict = {"feed_dict": {
    "all": TweetFeedAll,
    "only": TweetFeedUser,
    "with_friends": TweetFeedUserWithFriends,
}}

blogs_feed_dict = {"feed_dict": {
    "all": BlogFeedAll,
    "only": BlogFeedUser,
}}

bookmarks_feed_dict = {"feed_dict": {"": BookmarkFeed }}


urlpatterns = patterns("",
    url(r"^$", direct_to_template, {
        "template": "homepage.html",
    }, name="home"),
    url(r"^admin/invite_user/$", "pinax.apps.signup_codes.views.                admin_invite_user", name="admin_invite_user"),
    url(r"^admin/", include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r"^about/", include("about.urls")),
    url(r"^account/", include("pinax.apps.account.urls")),
    url(r"^openid/(.*)", PinaxConsumer()),
    url(r"^profiles/", include("pinax.apps.profiles.urls")),
    url(r"^bbauth/", include("pinax.apps.bbauth.urls")),
    url(r"^authsub/", include("pinax.apps.authsub.urls")),
    url(r"^blog/", include("pinax.apps.blog.urls")),
    url(r"^invitations/", include("friends_app.urls")),
    url(r"^notices/", include("notification.urls")),
    url(r"^messages/", include("messages.urls")),
    url(r"^announcements/", include("announcements.urls")),
    url(r"^tweets/", include("microblogging.urls")),
    url(r"^tribes/", include("pinax.apps.tribes.urls")),
    url(r"^comments/", include("threadedcomments.urls")),
    url(r"^i18n/", include("django.conf.urls.i18n")),
    url(r"^bookmarks/", include("bookmarks.urls")),
    url(r"^photos/", include("pinax.apps.photos.urls")),
    url(r"^avatar/", include("avatar.urls")),
    url(r"^swaps/", include("swaps.urls")),
    url(r"^flag/", include("flag.urls")),
    url(r"^locations/", include("locations.urls")),
    url(r"^feeds/tweets/(.*)/$", "django.contrib.syndication.views.feed",       tweets_feed_dict),
    url(r"^feeds/posts/(.*)/$", "django.contrib.syndication.views.feed",        blogs_feed_dict),
    url(r"^feeds/bookmarks/(.*)/?$", "django.contrib.syndication.views.feed",   bookmarks_feed_dict),
)

## @@@ for now, we'll use friends_app to glue this stuff together

friends_photos_kwargs = {
    "template_name": "photos/friends_photos.html",
    "friends_objects_function": lambda users: Image.objects.                    filter(is_public=True, member__in=users),
}

friends_blogs_kwargs = {
    "template_name": "blog/friends_posts.html",
    "friends_objects_function": lambda users: Post.objects.                     filter(author__in=users),
}

friends_tweets_kwargs = {
    "template_name": "microblogging/friends_tweets.html",
    "friends_objects_function": lambda users: Tweet.objects.                    filter(sender_id__in=[user.id for user in users], sender_type__name="user"),
}

friends_bookmarks_kwargs = {
    "template_name": "bookmarks/friends_bookmarks.html",
    "friends_objects_function": lambda users: Bookmark.objects.                 filter(saved_instances__user__in=users),
    "extra_context": {
        "user_bookmarks": lambda request: Bookmark.objects.                     filter(saved_instances__user=request.user),
    },
}

urlpatterns += patterns("",
    url(r"^photos/friends_photos/$", "friends_app.views.friends_objects",       kwargs=friends_photos_kwargs, name="friends_photos"),
    url(r"^blog/friends_blogs/$", "friends_app.views.friends_objects",          kwargs=friends_blogs_kwargs, name="friends_blogs"),
    url(r"^tweets/friends_tweets/$", "friends_app.views.friends_objects",       kwargs=friends_tweets_kwargs, name="friends_tweets"),
    url(r"^bookmarks/friends_bookmarks/$", "friends_app.views.friends_objects", kwargs=friends_bookmarks_kwargs, name="friends_bookmarks"),
)

tagged_models = (
    dict(title="Blog Posts",
        query=lambda tag : TaggedItem.objects.get_by_model(Post, tag).          filter(status=2),
        content_template="pinax_tagging_ext/blogs.html",
    ),
    dict(title="Bookmarks",
        query=lambda tag : TaggedItem.objects.get_by_model(BookmarkInstance,    tag),
        content_template="pinax_tagging_ext/bookmarks.html",
    "friends_objects_function": lambda users: Bookmark.objects.                 filter(saved_instances__user__in=users),
    "extra_context": {
        "user_bookmarks": lambda request: Bookmark.objects.                     filter(saved_instances__user=request.user),
    },
}

urlpatterns += patterns("",
    url(r"^photos/friends_photos/$", "friends_app.views.friends_objects",       kwargs=friends_photos_kwargs, name="friends_photos"),
    url(r"^blog/friends_blogs/$", "friends_app.views.friends_objects",          kwargs=friends_blogs_kwargs, name="friends_blogs"),
    url(r"^tweets/friends_tweets/$", "friends_app.views.friends_objects",       kwargs=friends_tweets_kwargs, name="friends_tweets"),
    url(r"^bookmarks/friends_bookmarks/$", "friends_app.views.friends_objects", kwargs=friends_bookmarks_kwargs, name="friends_bookmarks"),
)

tagged_models = (
    dict(title="Blog Posts",
        query=lambda tag : TaggedItem.objects.get_by_model(Post, tag).          filter(status=2),
        content_template="pinax_tagging_ext/blogs.html",
    ),
    dict(title="Bookmarks",
        query=lambda tag : TaggedItem.objects.get_by_model(BookmarkInstance,    tag),
        content_template="pinax_tagging_ext/bookmarks.html",
    ),
    dict(title="Photos",
        query=lambda tag: TaggedItem.objects.get_by_model(Image, tag).          filter(safetylevel=1),
        content_template="pinax_tagging_ext/photos.html",
    ),
    dict(title="Swap Offers",
        query=lambda tag : TaggedItem.objects.get_by_model(Offer, tag),
    ),
    dict(title="Topics",
        query=lambda tag: TaggedItem.objects.get_by_model(Topic, tag),
    ),
    dict(title="Tribes",
        query=lambda tag: TaggedItem.objects.get_by_model(Tribe, tag),
    ),
    dict(title="Wiki Articles",
        query=lambda tag: TaggedItem.objects.get_by_model(WikiPage, tag),
    ),
)
tagging_ext_kwargs = {
    "tagged_models": tagged_models,
}

urlpatterns += patterns("",
    url(r"^tags/(?P.+)/(?P.+)$", "tagging_ext.views.tag_by_model",
        kwargs=tagging_ext_kwargs, name="tagging_ext_tag_by_model"),
    url(r"^tags/(?P.+)/$", "tagging_ext.views.tag",
        kwargs=tagging_ext_kwargs, name="tagging_ext_tag"),
    url(r"^tags/$", "tagging_ext.views.index", name="tagging_ext_index"),
)

if settings.SERVE_MEDIA:
    urlpatterns += patterns("",
        url(r"", include("staticfiles.urls")),
    )

I would welcome any help being able to access the admin interface by pointing my browser to https://domain.tld/admin/ (and any help changing the page title from "Pinax Social Demo")

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