Page not found 404 on Django site?

Question

I\'m following the tutorial on Django\'s site to create a simple poll app. However, Django is unable to resolve \"//127.0.0.1:8000/polls\" , even though I\'ve defined the re

Answer 1

Django unable to resolve 127.0.0.1:8000/polls because url config defined as r'^polls/'.

Usual workaround:

mySite/urls.py:

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

urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')),
)

Note: Whenever Django encounters include(), It chops off whatever part of the URL matched up to that point and sends the remaining string to the included URLconf for further processing.

mySite/polls/urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
from polls import views

urlpatterns = patterns('polls.views',
url(r'^$', 'index', name='index'), 
)

Note: Instead of typing that out for each entry in urlpatterns, you can use the first argument to the patterns() function to specify a prefix to apply to each view function.

Answer If

If you want to access 127.0.0.1:8000/polls Note: without trailing slash

use view based url

url(r'^polls', 'polls.views.index', name='index'),

So now you can access 127.0.0.1:8000/polls without trailing slash.