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Brendan
Brendan

Reputation: 31

django admin page wont show

I have seen several questions relating to this topic but none work for me I am running Django 3 and python 3 with ubuntu and using firefox browser

when i run "python3 manage.py runserver"

my homepage loads at 127.0.0.1:8000 but when I add /admin in the browser

127.0.0.1:8000/admin

it still stays at the homepage not the admin page

i notice on the running server i get

December 09, 2019 - 00:40:46 Django version 1.11.11, using settings 'mysite.settings' Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Quit the server with CONTROL-C. " "and when i add /admin the following line appears"

[09/Dec/2019 00:46:05] "GET /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 3

but still i dont see the admin page

please ask and i can share

"settings.py" etc and any other information update

my "main" folder has a urls.py file which looks like:

from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views

app_name = "main"

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^', views.homepage, name="homepage"),
]

my "mysite/mysite" folder has a urls.py file that looks like:

 from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.contrib import admin


urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^', include('main.urls')),
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

Thanks to a comment from @chrisbyte if i comment out 

#url(r'^', include('main.urls'))

Line then my admin page shows up, But then I dont get anything I have done on my "main" page.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 446

Answers (2)

Brendan
Brendan

Reputation: 31

The main problem was that due to the fact I was not working in an environment that had python 3 as its main python, it had actually downloaded an earlier version of Django. this was more confusing as my "IDLE" pointed to python 3, and when i asked for Django version In Idle it told me version 3, but when i asked for Django version in a shell in my workspace it told me the actual version was 1.

I had tried to adapt a tutorial that used "Path" syntax to my code above which did not exist in the earlier version of Django.

I followed another tutorial that was for an earlier version of django and it worked ok.

The lesson learned was to use a conda environment with the correct version of python.

Upvotes: 0

chrisbyte
chrisbyte

Reputation: 1633

So with formatting, your urls.py looks something like this?

from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.contrib import admin 

urlpatterns = [ 
    url(r'^', include('main.urls')), 
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls), 
]

What happens if you put the admin url route before the main.urls route, like this? 

urlpatterns = [ 
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls), 
    url(r'^', include('main.urls')), 
]

I believe the admin portion should come first so it is not overwritten by main.urls

Upvotes: 1

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