Question

Is there a way to render a html page without having a view model in django if a page is going to display only static html?

Also, can I redirect to a html page instead of a url? For example, instead of doing this:

return HttpResponseRedirect('form/success/')

can I do this:

return HttpResponseRedirect('success.html')

?

Answer 1

For static HTML you could use Flatpages app.

You could also serve rendered templates (which could contain only static HTML) but you will need a view:

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
def some_view(request):
   return render_to_response('sometemplate.html')

About redirection, basically you can’t redirect to HTML page by just giving the filename, even if it were statically served by the web server you would still be using a URL that points to that file.