Question

Hi I am a beginner with django and all I have left to deploy the site is a stupid url conf problem. I have a simple site with 5 pages that are home,contact,about,reasons, and benefits. Simple right, url conf will be (r'^home/$',index), and as follows for the rest of the pages. Here is the problem when I go to the home page /home/ fine. Now go to any other page on the navigation like /reasons/ or /about/,they dont get called like that, instead get called /home/reasons/ or /home/about/. Even more so if from /home/about/ I click back to home the call is /home/about/home. As you see this goes on forever. How can it be where every request to a page is a simple /about/ or /contact/ instead of /home/contact or /home/about.

I had defined one that went /home/contact/home/home/about/reasons/home I cant possibly put all those in urlconf

Note: this is all being ran on django dev server

Answer 1

If your urls look like this:

(r'^home/$', myapp.views.index)

then use it in template as:

<a href="{% url myapp.views.index %}>some text</a>

to avoid wrong interpretation. Django will do the rest.

For Django 1.5 use

<a href="{% url 'myapp.views.index' %}>some text</a>