Thanks all. Just getting up to speed on regex, need to re-read some
chapters. Changing these to the suggested above, fixing the mismatched
from "mysite.views import hello" by importing * in the urls.py and removing
the quotes around the func got me to my targeted basic site. Best, V.
On Sunday, September 23, 2012 4:54:46 PM UTC-5, JirkaV wrote:
>
> Hi Vincent,
>
> Django is telling you what the problem is - none of strings in urls.py
> matches the requested URL. All lines in your file say that the regular
> expression fas nothing before the "foo" (the "^" character says that).
> However the URL you are trying has "homepage/" before "foo". Hence it does
> not match.
>
> You need to correct this before you can proceed furter. Either remove the
> "homepage/" from your request (may be in a link on your first page) or
> change the urls.py accordingly.
>
> HTH
>
> Jirka
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> *Subject: *Re: Beginner problem linking pages from homepage?
>
> Thank you for the timely advice. Before I move my "base/homepage" site to
> its own app dir, thought I would give it another pass using your changes.
> Verified 'mysite.urls' in settings.py, added 'mysite' to the urlpatterns
> arg and put quotes around the hello func. I have had debugging from the
> outset of installation. views.py in the mysite/mysite dir is simply:
>
> def hello(request):
> return HttpResponse('Hello World!')
>
> The 404 error which comes up is:
>
> Page not found (404) Request Method: GET Request URL:
> http://192.168.1.126:8000/homepage/foo1
>
> Using the URLconf defined in mysite.urls, Django tried these URL
> patterns, in this order:
>
> 1. ^foo1$
> 2. ^foo2$
> 3. ^foo3$
> 4. ^foo4$
>
> The current URL, homepage/foo1, didn't match any of these.
>
> You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django
> settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard
> 404 page. Could be a permissions thing or some subtle backslashes nuance I
> haven't picked up on yet?
> Thanks again. V.
>
>
> On Saturday, September 22, 2012 7:39:36 PM UTC-5, Sam Lai wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> I just created a toy project with that urls.py and it worked fine.
>>
>> > I am not even sure if philosophically this is considered a good
>> practice of
>> > django. Thanks in advance for your assistance. V.
>>
>> Generally you would not create a views.py in your project directory
>> (mysite/mysite is your project directory). You would usually create an
>> app (mysite/manage.py startapp appname), create your views, app-level
>> URLs, models etc. in there, and then reference them in your project
>> urls.py by including your app's urls.py.
>>
>> Also, generally you would reference the view using a string, instead
>> of the actual view function itself. This saves you from having to
>> import every view, and avoid clashes in larger projects where you may
>> have view functions with the same name in different apps. In the
>> second urls.py you posted, the first parameter to patterns, where you
>> have 'homepage' specified, is used to shorten these view function
>> strings - that parameter is appended to your url definitions, i.e. you
>> could use the following urls.py instead -
>>
>> urlpatterns = patterns('mysite',
>> url(r'^foo1$', 'hello'),
>> url(r'^foo2$', 'hello'),
>> url(r'^foo3$', 'hello'),
>> url(r'^foo4$', 'hello'),
>> )
>>
>> ... and Django will append 'mysite' to all the view function strings,
>> turning them into 'mysite.hello'. See
>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/urls/#the-view-prefix
>>
>> >
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