Question

I am trying to get request.path in my template but I get nothing. Everything else on the page works fine. I have done:

In views.py

from django.template import RequestContext

return render_to_response('frontpage.html', {}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

In my template frontpage.html

{{ request.path  }}

What else am I missing? I’d post some code, but I don’t know were to begin.

Edit: Am using localhost in case that matters.

Answer 1

Make sure that your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS
setting includes django.core.context_processors.request; that’s what actually adds the request variable. This isn’t on by default.

(Also, django.shortcuts.render is usually easier than render_to_response with an explicit RequestContext.)