Question

I can’t figure out why Django is not loading the admin page. It seems like it isn’t even reading the urls.py file that I am editing – because even if I comment out the ‘urlpatterns’ statement, it still loads the local hello page fine once I run the server.

This is the error message:

Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin
Using the URLconf defined in mysite.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
^hello/$
^time/$
^time/plus/(\d{1,2})/$
The current URL, admin, didn't match any of these.

This is my urlpatterns code:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from mysite.views import *

# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ('^hello/$', hello, ),
    ('^time/$', current_datetime, ),
    (r'^time/plus/(\d{1,2})/$', hours_ahead, ),
    # Examples:
    # url(r'^$', 'mysite.views.home', name='home'),
    # url(r'^mysite/', include('mysite.foo.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
    # url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls))
)

And this is a snippet os my settings.py file:

 MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    # 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    # 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware'
    # Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection:
    # 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'mysite.urls'

# Python dotted path to the WSGI application used by Django's runserver.
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'mysite.wsgi.application'

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    '/Users/pavelfage/Desktop/Coding/mysite/Templates',
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
)

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    # 'django.contrib.messages',
    # 'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
    # 'django.contrib.admindocs',
    'mysite.books'
)

Any help much appreciated!

Answer 1

I had the same problem. You may try this:

• In your urls.py replace the call include(admin.site.urls) by this: admin.site.urls

• In your setting.py if don’t have any TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS property (that was my situation) add this:

  TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (“django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth”, “django.core.context_processors.debug”, “django.core.context_processors.i18n”, “django.core.context_processors.media”, “django.core.context_processors.static”, “django.core.context_processors.tz”, “django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages”)

It seams to be roughly the default property in a normal django 1.4 configuration. Here are the docs talking about it: djangoproject-doc1 djangoproject-doc2

You may also have to uncomment the strings:

# 'django.contrib.messages',
# 'django.contrib.staticfiles',

in your INSTALLED_APPS property of the settings.py but i’m not sure about it.

Sorry about not explaining much better the reasons of those changes but I’m a django-beginner to. I just found your question corresponding to my problem and then a possible awnser.

I hope it may help you.

EDIT: as seen in a comment you may try to remove the url(…) instruction on the line concerning the url of the admin site

ben