Redirect url from django application

Question

I have a basic application built in Django, which only works if I enter:

http://xx.xx.xxx.xx/polls. How can I rewrite this in my urls.py file so that http://xx.xx.xxx.xx/polls will redirect me to http://xx.xx.xxx.xx/ ?

My urls.py file for the main project:

from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace="polls")),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
]

My urls.py file from the application:

from django.conf.urls import url

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
    url(r'^(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
    url(r'^(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/results/$', views.ResultsView.as_view(), name='results'),
    url(r'^(?P<question_id>\d+)/vote/$', views.vote, name='vote'),
]

My project structure:

├── blog  
│   ├── __init__.py  
│   ├── __init__.pyc  
│   ├── settings.py  
│   ├── settings.pyc  
│   ├── urls.py  
│   ├── urls.pyc  
│   ├── wsgi.py  
│   └── wsgi.pyc  
├── db.sqlite3  
├── manage.py  
├── polls  
│   ├── admin.py  
│   ├── admin.pyc  
│   ├── __init__.py  
│   ├── __init__.pyc  
│   ├── migrations  
│   │   ├── 0001_initial.py  
│   │   ├── 0001_initial.pyc  
│   │   ├── __init__.py  
│   │   └── __init__.pyc  
│   ├── models.py  
│   ├── models.pyc  
│   ├── templates  
│   │   └── polls  
│   │       ├── detail.html  
│   │       ├── index.html  
│   │       ├── results.html  
│   │       └── static  
│   │           └── polls  
│   │               ├── css  
│   │               │   ├── semantic.css  
│   │               │   ├── semantic.min.css  
│   │               │   ├── sidebar.css  
│   │               │   ├── sidebar.min.css  
│   │               │   ├── sidebar.min.js  
│   │               │   └── style.css  
│   │               ├── images  
│   │               └── js  
│   │                   ├── jquery-1.11.2.min.js  
│   │                   ├── semantic.js  
│   │                   ├── semantic.min.js  
│   │                   ├── sidebar.js  
│   │                   └── sidebar.min.js  
│   ├── tests.py  
│   ├── tests.pyc  
│   ├── urls.py  
│   ├── urls.pyc  
│   ├── views.py  
│   └── views.pyc  
├── readme.txt  
├── requirements.txt  
├── templates  
│   └── admin  
│       └── base_site.html

catavaran · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-14 08:37:44Z

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As far as I undesrstand you don't ant to redirect from /polls/ to / but want to show the polls index at the home page. If so then just move the index url from the polls/urls.py into the main urls.py:

from polls.views import IndexView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
    url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace="polls")),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
]

UPDATE: It is a bad practice to use hard-coded urls in the django templates/code. You should always use the {% url %} template tag and the reverse() function. This will allow you to change urls as you want without breaking the code.

So link to the index page should be like this:

<a href="{% url 'index' %}">Home page</a>

And, for example, link to the poll details:

<a href="{% url 'polls:detail' poll.pk %}">Poll #{{ poll.pk }}</a>

In the model's get_absolute_url() method use the reverse().

edited Apr 14, 2015 at 8:37

answered Apr 14, 2015 at 6:36

catavaran

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Cajuu' Over a year ago

Ok, it works @catavaran but the problem is that the other links won't work (they will redirect me to an error page) . That's why I wanted a redirect.

Cajuu' Over a year ago

how should I modify the other links so that your method will work for other pages. Your solution is ok for the first page, but if I try to click a link from that page, it will give me error for the other pages

catavaran Over a year ago

You have no page to redirect. The / url doesn't have any associated view. This is why I suggest to map this url to your IndexView. As for broken links.. see the update in my answer. Always use django's url resolver for the links.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:28:10Z

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You could also include your whole polls app on '/' by doing:

    url(r'^', include('polls.urls', namespace="polls")),

Also, see here for more information on redirecting in urls.py: Redirect to named url pattern directly from urls.py in django?

In your case it would be something like:

    from django.views.generic import RedirectView

    url(r'^polls/', RedirectView.as_view(pattern_name='polls:index')

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:28

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answered Apr 14, 2015 at 8:55

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Cajuu' Over a year ago

url(r'^', include('polls.urls', namespace="polls")), this was what I was looking for

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