Django catch-all URL without breaking APPEND_SLASH

Question

I have an entry in my urls.py that acts as a catch-all which loads a simple view if it finds an appropriate page in the database. The problem with this approach is that the

Answer 1

Make sure that your catch-all URL pattern has a slash at the end, and that the pattern is the last in your URLconf. If the catch-all pattern doesn't end with a slash, then it will match stray URLs before the middleware tries appending a slash.

For example, use r'^.*/$' instead of r'^.*' as your last pattern.

To do the same, but pass the url to the view as a named argument, use r'^(?P.*)/$'.