Include method under urls.py not working: Django

Question

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

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', views.index, name='index'),
    path('dashboard/', include(pages.urls)),
]

I'm trying to use include method under my urls.py file to direct the dashboad/ request to my app urls.py file, which is not working.

Answer 1

Hi and welcome to StackOverflow!

The problem you are facing is that Django expects the include(...) method to be given a list of url patterns or the string of the module url's you want to be included at the path.

I would refactor your code like so:

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

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', views.index, name='index'),
    path('dashboard/', include('pages.urls')),
]

Answer 2

change this line :

path('dashboard/', include(pages.urls)),

to this :

path('dashboard/', include('pages.urls')),

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