Python - Django add multiple urlpatterns for multiple views of template

Question

I'm very very new to Python 3 and Django and I get to the following problem: I use a standard Template and now how to set it up when there is 1 view. But I don't get the code right for multiple views. I currently run the page locally

At the moment I have tried to change different orders within urlpatterns, and they do work when only 1 url in in there, but I can't get the second one in

views.py

from django.shortcuts import render, render_to_response

# Create your views here.
def index(request):
    return render_to_response('index.html')

def store(request):
    return render_to_response('store.html')

urls.py

from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
from myapp import views as views
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns



urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
    url(r'^store/$', views.store, name='store'),
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls)
]
urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

I would like the url pattern that lets me go to the index view and the store view

EDIT: Full code is shared via: https://github.com/lotwij/DjangoTemplate

I don't understand what the problem is. Your URL patterns look OK - you should be able to access the index view on http://localhost:8000/ and the store view on http://localhost:8000/store/. A common mistake is to use url(r'^', ...) (without the $), and then it matches / and /store/, but that's not an issue here. — Alasdair
– Alasdair, Commented Apr 2, 2019 at 13:44
Note that render_to_response is obsolete - use render instead, e.g. return render(request, 'index.html'). — Alasdair
– Alasdair, Commented Apr 2, 2019 at 13:46
what do you see when you navigate to: localhost:8000/store ? — Walucas
– Walucas, Commented Apr 2, 2019 at 13:55
@ Alasdair I edit the render_to_response thank you :) @Walucas I get the following error page: Page not found (404) Request Method: GET Request URL: 127.0.0.1:8000/store.html Using the URLconf defined in mysite.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order: ^$ [name='index'] ^store/$ [name='store'] ^admin/ ^static\/(?P<path>.*)$ The current path, store.html, 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. — Lotw
– Lotw, Commented Apr 2, 2019 at 14:00
That's why I was thinking it's in the urlspattern, like some kind of order mistake.. but maybe I'm wrong.. — Lotw
– Lotw, Commented Apr 2, 2019 at 14:02

Alasdair · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-02 14:13:00Z

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The error in the comments shows you are going to http:/127.0.0.1:8000/store.html, but your URL pattern url(r'^store/$', ...) does not include the .html, so you should go to http:/127.0.0.1:8000/store/.

The Django URL system uncouples the URL from the name of the template (sometimes the view doesn't even render a template!). You could change the regex to r'^store.html$ if you really want .html in the URL, but I find the URL without the extension is cleaner.

answered Apr 2, 2019 at 14:13

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Lotw Over a year ago

I do wonder, I can I get to the code where I can just get to every view? I now tried this: ``` urlpatterns = [ url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'), url(r'^store.html/$', views.store, name='store'), url(r'^products.html/$', views.products, name='products'),``` and now its pasting everything together and gives an error: "The current path, store.html/products.html, didn't match any of these." Which makes sense as this isn't a path..

Alasdair Over a year ago

It sounds like you are clicking a link <a href="products.html">, which is missing a slash at the beginning. It should be <a href="/products.html">, or even better reverse the URL with <a href="{% url 'products' %}">

Alasdair Over a year ago

I would suggest you use URLs like /store/ or store.html. URLs like /store.html/ with both an extension and a trailing slash look very unusual.

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