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i want to set a main page or an index page for my app. i tried adding MAIN_PAGE in settings.py and then creating a main_page view returning a main_page object, but it doesn't work Also, i tries to add in the urls.py a declaration like
(r'^$', index), where indexshould be the name of the index.html file on the root (but it obviously does not work)
What is the best way to set a main page in a Django website?
thanks!
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Set up app folder's urls.py and html files In the same directory, you should have a file named views.py. We will create a function called index which is what makes the http request for our website to be loaded. Now, we've set it up such that http://127.0.0.1:8000/homepage will render the HTML template index.
Django Redirects: A Super Simple Example Just call redirect() with a URL in your view. It will return a HttpResponseRedirect class, which you then return from your view. Assuming this is the main urls.py of your Django project, the URL /redirect/ now redirects to /redirect-success/ .
The new preferred way of doing this would be to use the TemplateView class. See this SO answer if you would like to move from direct_to_template.
In your main urls.py file:
from django.conf.urls import url from django.contrib import admin from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView urlpatterns = [ url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls), # the regex ^$ matches empty url(r'^$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='static_pages/index.html'), name='home'), ] Note, I choose to put any static pages linke index.html in its own directory static_pages/ within the templates/ directory.
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