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David542
David542

Reputation: 110502

Trouble setting up django settings

I'm just learning Django and trying to setup the View and URLconfs (http://djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter03/).

Inside my project folder "mysite" (/Users/NAME/Desktop/development/Python/djcode/mysite), I have the following two files:

views.py

from django.http import HttpResponse

def hello(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello world")

and urls.py

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from mysite.views import hello

urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^hello/$', hello),
)

However, when I run the test server, it shows a 404 page saying:

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

^hello/$

The current URL, , didn't match any of these.

I think this has to do with my settings.py not being correct. What do I need to change in the settings.py file to point it to the correct destination?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1515

Answers (2)

Amazing Angelo
Amazing Angelo

Reputation: 1728

Looks like the URL you entered when testing it was "http://localhost:8000/". You should enter "http://localhost:8000/hello/" to see the output of the function you made.

Upvotes: 0

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 799370

You have no urlconf pattern corresponding to the root of your webserver. Add ^$ and make it go somewhere.

Upvotes: 1

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