Django, urls.py, include doesn't seem to be working

Question

I'm trying to include an additional urls.py inside my main urls - however it doesn't seem to be working. I've done a bunch of searching and I can't seem to figure it out

main urls.py file - the admin works fine

from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url

from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

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

I then have a folder pnasser, with the file urls.py with the following:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url

urlpatterns = patterns('pnasser.views',
        (r'^$','index'),
        (r'^login/$','login'),
        (r'^signup/$','signup'),
        (r'^insertaccount/$','insertaccount'),
        (r'^home/$','home'),
        (r'^update/(?P<accid>\d+)','update'),
        (r'^history/(?P<accid>\d+)','account_history'),
        (r'^logout/(?P<accid>\d+)','logout'),

)

I'm not sure if I'm maybe missing something else in the configuration. if I visit mysite.com/admin it loads the admin correctly, if I goto mysite or any other url in the views I get 404 page not found:

Using the URLconf defined in mysite.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order: 1. ^pnasser/ 2. ^admin/

The current URL, , didn't match any of these.

edit settings.py installed apps:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    #'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
     'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
    # 'django.contrib.admindocs',
        'pnasser',

)

Update 2

So, I also tried running my site via the dev server: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 this works. I'm assuming somewhere in my integration with apache using mod_wsgi is the problem. However, I'm not sure where the problem would be

Solution 1

The problem seemed to be in the django.wsgi file - and the differences in how the standard django.wsgi file loads a python site vs how the development server loads the site. I guess it's a well known issue, that I was unaware of. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Alternative django.wsgi file found here: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2010/03/improved-wsgi-script-for-use-with.html

Solution 2

The problem is that you are using an empty regex ("^" will match anything, including an empty url) to handle an include directive. If you do that, it will always append a first slash at your request path. Considering that on your pnasser.urls does not contain a regex for "/", there is no match for a request on mysite.com.

If you want mysite.com or mysite.com/ to take you to pnasser "index" view, you need to have something like:

from django.contrib import admin

from pnasser.views import index

admin.autodiscover()


urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^/?$', index),
    (r'^pnasser/',include('pnasser.urls')),
    (r'^admin/',include(admin.site.urls)),
)

So, you have:

• mysite.com => pnasser.views.index
• mysite.com/ => pnasser.views.index
• mysite.com/admin => admin page
• mysite.com/pnasser/ => pnasser.views.index
• mysite.com/pnasser/home => pnasser.views.home

If this doesn't work, make sure that you have Django's CommonMiddleware installed, and make you have APPEND_SLASH = True (it is the default, so you shouldn't need to mess with this if you don't find it in your settings.py file).

Solution 3

from django.contrib import admin,include
admin.autodiscover()

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

maybe you missed "include" in the first line

Comments

[Prescott]

It appears to be there - unless I've done something wrong here. I've edited my question to include the Installed_apps variable

[j_syk]

So does it work now? If not, try stopping then starting your apache server. I've had problems with urls and settings not updating right away when using a restart command. But stop start seems to help.

[Prescott]

Yes sorry, had to wait a day to mark as answer. I did have to start and restart

[beerbajay]

How about a link for future users with a similar problem?

[Prescott]

@beerbajay - aboslutely... blog.dscpl.com.au/2010/03/…