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Sultan
Sultan

Reputation: 13

Django - Python - URL didn't match any of these

When I write code like this without .html in the end of about/:

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.index, name='index'),
    path('about/', views.about, name='about'),
    path('contact/', views.contact, name='contact'),
    path('categories/', views.categories, name='categories'),
    path('docAdd/', views.docAdd, name='docAdd')
]

I get errors when click on about in the navbar of my webpage, error in that case is :

" The current path, about.html, didn't match any of these." But when I change about/ to about.html/ then I can click on about in navbar and page opens, but when I switch from about to contact in navbar I get error like: "The current path, about.html/contact.html, didn't match any of these."

This is the code with .html suffix: 

from django.urls import path
    from . import views

    urlpatterns = [
        path('', views.index, name='index'),
        path('about.html/', views.about, name='about'),
        path('contact.html/', views.contact, name='contact'),
        path('categories.html/', views.categories, name='categories'),
        path('docAdd.html/', views.docAdd, name='docAdd')
    ]

views.py code:

from django.shortcuts import render
from . models import Document

def index(request):
    return render(request, 'index.html')

def about(request):
    return render(request, 'about.html')

def contact(request):
    return render(request, 'contact.html')

def categories(request):
    return render(request, 'categories.html')

def docAdd(request):
    return render(request, 'docAdd.html')

This is the error when I click on about in navbar two times, when I have .htmlsuffix with about/ in urls.py:

Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://localhost:8000/about.html/about.html
Using the URLconf defined in thesisProject.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:

admin/
[name='index']
about.html/ [name='about']
contact.html/ [name='contact']
categories.html/ [name='categories']
docAdd.html/ [name='docAdd']
^media/(?P<path>.*)$
The current path, about.html/about.html, didn't match any of these.

This is the error when I click on about in navbar one time, when I have dont have .htmlsuffix with about/ in urls.py:

Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://localhost:8000/about.html/about.html
Using the URLconf defined in thesisProject.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:

admin/
[name='index']
about.html/ [name='about']
contact.html/ [name='contact']
categories.html/ [name='categories']
docAdd.html/ [name='docAdd']
^media/(?P<path>.*)$
The current path, about.html, didn't match any of these.

Code for navbar in index.html:

      <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="ftco-nav">
        <ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto">
          <li class="nav-item active"><a href="index.html" class="nav-link">Home</a></li>
          <li class="nav-item"><a href="about.html" class="nav-link">About</a></li>
          <li class="nav-item"><a href="categories.html" class="nav-link">Categories</a></li>
          <li class="nav-item"><a href="docAdd.html" class="nav-link">Add New Documents</a></li>
          <li class="nav-item cta"><a href="contact.html" class="nav-link"><span>Get in touch</span></a></li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </div>
  </nav>
  <!-- END nav -->

I can't seem to solve this, please help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1606

Answers (2)

Zack Turner
Zack Turner

Reputation: 226

The reason is that in the html u probably haven’t put a slash before the nav It should be like this

 <a href=“/about/”>

This will go to about.html rather than add /about.html to the end of the url.

So on the nav bar it should be:

<li class="nav-item"><a href="/about/" class="nav-link">About</a></li>

change your nav bar to this:

      <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="ftco-nav">
    <ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto">
      <li class="nav-item active"><a href="/index/" class="nav-link">Home</a></li>
      <li class="nav-item"><a href="/about/" class="nav-link">About</a></li>
      <li class="nav-item"><a href="/categories/" class="nav-link">Categories</a></li>
      <li class="nav-item"><a href="/docAdd/" class="nav-link">Add New Documents</a></li>
      <li class="nav-item cta"><a href="/contact/" class="nav-link"><span>Get in touch</span></a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</div>

urls.py should look like:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from main import views
urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', views.index, name='index'),
    path('about/', views.about, name='about'),
    path('contact/', views.contact, name='contact'),
    path('categories/', views.categories, name='categories'),
    path('docAdd/', views.docAdd, name='docAdd')
]

I hope this helps please comment if you don’t understand what I have put.

Upvotes: 2

andypaling1
andypaling1

Reputation: 142

Firstly, you should not include .html in your urls file.

And when you put your link in the <a> tag, you should use a django url-reversion template tag like this:

{% url 'about' %}

<li class="nav-item"><a href="{% url 'about' %}">About</a></li>

Also ensure you have a templates file setup in your app directory.

Upvotes: 1

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