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Reputation: 491

Django URLs management

I'm a full beginner on Django. Therefore, I'm sorry if my question is not making so much sense.

I'm studying Django tutorial - step 1. I installed properly Django and created my first Django project named 'vanilla'. The urls.py script of the vanilla project is

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

When I start Django with this 'vanilla' project and start the development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/, I correctly see the start page (with a rocket).

In a second project that I named 'djtutorial', I created as requested in Django tutorial - step 1 a 'polls' app. As requested, I modified urls.py file in djtutorial\polls which now has following content:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
    path('polls/', include('polls.urls')),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

If I start the server the url http://127.0.0.1:8000/polls/ is working properly. However, if I launch the root url of the site (i.e. http://127.0.0.1:8000/), I now have a 404 error.

Why is the 'root url' of the site now hidden?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 198

Answers (1)

GwynBleidD
GwynBleidD

Reputation: 20569

There wasn't any root URL at all. Main page informing you that your project is created properly shows up only if you don't have any view of your own added to urlpatterns. When you create any page, this welcome page stops showing up and that is expected.

If you want to show your own page on root of your website, use this in your urlpatterns:

    path('', >>VIEW OR INCLUDE HERE<<),

Upvotes: 1

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