Question

I am a python/django newbie following along this tutorial on dotcloud. I git cloned the scripts, and did not change anything. After I do a dotcloud push, I get a 404 error, admin not found.

Looking for answers, I found this from dotcloud answers, checked my wsgi.py and found nothing different from what I cloned from the tutorial. I also did a dotcloud logs -b mysite and found nothing wrong.

I also ran a

dotcloud run mysite python current/path_to/manage.py syncdb

and I still get

Page not found (404)
Request Method:     GET
Request URL:    http://jims-now0pen.dotcloud.com/
    Using the URLconf defined in hellodjango.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
        ^admin/
    The current URL, , didn't match any of these.

What should I do to fix this? I appreciate your help –thank you.

Answer 1

The tutorial application does not provide an URL mapping for the root URL (http://jims-now0pen.dotcloud.com/); however, you can go to http://jims-now0pen.dotcloud.com/admin/ to see Django’s admin site.

This is explained at the end of this paragraph:

If we push our application now, we can go to the /admin URL […]