Page not found 404 on Django site?

Question

I'm following the tutorial on Django's site to create a simple poll app. However, Django is unable to resolve "//127.0.0.1:8000/polls" , even though I've defined the regex in mySite/urls.py. I'm doing this in a virtualenv, with the latest Django (1.7) installed.

mySite/urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url from django.contrib import admin  urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls')), ) 

mySite/polls/urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url from polls import views  urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),  ) 

mySite/polls/views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render from django.http import HttpResponse def index(request):     return HttpResponse("Hello, world. You're at the polls index.") 

mySite/settings.py:

 ...  INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'polls',  )    ....  ROOT_URLCONF = 'mySite.urls' 

The error I'm getting:

Using the URLconf defined in mySite.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order: ^admin/   The current URL, polls, didn't match any of these. 

Answer 1

I had the same problem.

It turns out I was confused because of the multiple directories named "mysite".

I wrongly created a urls.py file in the root "mysite" directory (which contains "manage.py"), then pasted in the code from the website.

To correct it I deleted this file, went into the mysite/mysite directory (which contains "settings.py"), modified the existing "urls.py" file, and replaced the code with the tutorial code.

In a nutshell, make sure your urls.py file is in the right directory.