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Roselle Ebarle
Roselle Ebarle

Reputation: 69

How to organize and access URLS and TEMPLATES in django

i have just begun learning Django, and i stick with the principle that the fastest and best way to learn is through practice. I'm on the process of building my first web app, and i would really appreciate your help on the following :

I'm working on getting the front end to show up. But i'm having a hard time understanding the way the URLS work.

I have the following directory : 

/myApp
    /myApp
        /public
        /templates
            /account
                login.html
            base.html
        settings.py
        urls.py
        ...
    /account
        urls.py
        views.py

I have this on my myApp(the main app) 'urls.py' file

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ...
    url(r'^$', include(account.urls), name='account'),
)

And inside my account urls.py file, i already have the ff :

...
urlpatterns = patterns(
    'account.views',
    url(r'^$', 'login_user', name='login'),
)

I already defined following on the account views.py file : 

def login_user(request):
    return render(request, 'account/login.html')

So i guess the request should render my login.html file.

But i get the error that, 

NameError at /
name 'account' is not defined

Therefore, i've figured that there must be something wrong with my settings.py file, right?

So here it is if it serves some purpose (just the important stuffs) : 

...
BASE_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '.')
...
ROOT_URLCONF = 'myApp.urls'
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'myApp.wsgi.application'
TEMPLATE_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'templates'),
] 
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'static')
STATIC_URL = "/static/"
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'public'),
]

Right now, i really need to at least get the front end working. I hope the details i gave you gives you an idea of how i am organizing my file right now.

Additional note : I want to just create one template directory for the whole app. And as you can see on the structure, the template folder is inside the main app. How do i configure it inside the settings such that the apps use the main template folder?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 809

Answers (1)

catavaran
catavaran

Reputation: 45575

You should put the account.urls in quotes. Also remove the $ sign from the regex:

url(r'^', include('account.urls')),

And in the account/urls.py file you should correct the base module name from oauth to the acount (your view is account.views.login_user, not the oauth.views.login_user):

urlpatterns = patterns('account.views',
    ....
)

Upvotes: 1

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