Django - URL configuration

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Here is something i wanna ask if i try this code i can go to login page but my url look like this http://127.0.0.1:8000/%2Flogin/. What is this %2F?

urlpatterns = [
path("", views.index, name="index"),
path("<str:slug>", views.redirect, name='redirect'),
path('/login/', views.logIn, name='login')]

And i remove slash from login url i get an error message

Page not found (404) Request Method:
GET Request URL:
http://127.0.0.1:8000//login/

after removing slashes here is the code

urlpatterns = [
path("", views.index, name="index"),
path("<str:slug>", views.redirect, name='redirect'),
path('login', views.logIn, name='login')]

So, i wanna know is that why are the slashes affecting the url for login but not <str:slug>

%2F is encoded url character / , browser will automatically encodes/decodes it. — G1Rao
– G1Rao, Commented Apr 29, 2020 at 17:49

Özer · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-29 17:31:46Z

1

Try this:

urlpatterns = [
    path("login/", views.logIn, name='login'),
    path("<str:slug>/", views.redirect, name='redirect'),
    path("", views.index, name="index")
]

The order of the entries matter and always add a trailing /, unless you have root like views.index

answered Apr 29, 2020 at 17:31

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HARSH ASHRA Over a year ago

It worked but i wanna know that if i add a new url it should be above login url or at the last.

Özer Over a year ago

It depends on the new url. As a rule of thumb, if you hardcode a string like "login/", it should come before any path, that expected a string (like <str:slug>). Because for Django, if <str:slug> at top, "login/" would match that criteria. So it would tread "login" as a slug and use "views.redirect". So now that "login/" is before the slug, it will first check of the string is "login", if not, it will go on to the next path, which is "<str:slug>". And so on...

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