Question

I have a django test, on an amazon ec2 instance,
I see the “It worked!” page,

i have commented the necessary lines to have access to the admin,

but i cannot see the admin page,

I have to configure properly the urls.py to show the view in my app,

from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url

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

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Examples:
    # url(r'^$', 'micopiloto.views.home', name='home'),
    url(r'^$', 'portfolio.views.view', name='home'),
    # url(r'^micopiloto/', include('micopiloto.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)),
)

the view for my app is in:
/home/ubuntu/djangoProj/micopiloto/portfolio/views.py

but I have an empty views.py [as i just created the app]

so how do I set the urls.py to connect with my app,

do i need some basic code to see the views.py of my app?

and how to load the admin page?

thanks!

Answer 1

Each view (a function in views.py file) in django is related to a url, that is when the url is visited, that view funciton will be called and the output will be shown in the browser.

To create a simple view function, open the views.py file of the app with a text editor, and add this function to it:

from django.http import HttpResponse

def view(request):
    return HttpResponse('Hello World!')

Now you can view your first page by visiting /, and also can see the admin page in /admin.

Note that the function name must be same as the one you enter in the urls.py (here view as in: ‘portfolio.view.view‘).
Also note that if you have a error in your urls.py files (and some other files like settings.py, admin.py, etc.) you cannot see the admin page, here the error what that you referenced a function called portfolio.views.view in urls.py but there was not such function in your views.py file.