After posting this I paid a little more attention to the text of the book! I was just viewing the site root of course. The URL "http:// 127.0.0.1:8000/hello" produces the correct results. Apologies for such a careless entry.
Don On Dec 16, 8:26 pm, nodxof <donf...@mac.com> wrote: > I've just started learning django using "The Definitive Guide to > django" second edition. > > Going by the initial example in Chapter 3 I get this. > > Page not found (404) > Request Method: GET > Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/ > Using the URLconf defined in mysite.urls, Django tried these URL > patterns, in this order: > ^hello/$ > The current URL, , didn't match any of these. > > but here is the urls.py file exactly as in the book. p.23 > > from django.conf.urls.defaults import * > from mysite.views import hello > > urlpatterns = patterns('', > ('^hello/$', hello) > ) > > For completion the views.py is > > from django.http import HttpResponse > > def hello(request): > return HttpResponse("Hello world") > > The directoy is: > /Users/donfox1/Projects/Python/Django/mysite > > and everything looks normal ther! > > There is something wrong with the regular expression!? ('^hello/$', > hello) > > Thanks in advance for any assistance! I'm a newby to the worls of > Python/Django. > > Don -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
