my admin urls are sat behind a prefix by doing the following. 1# (r’^admin/’,

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Asked: May 15, 20262026-05-15T08:04:59+00:00 2026-05-15T08:04:59+00:00

my admin urls are sat behind a prefix by doing the following.

1#

(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

is placed within urls_core.py

2#

(r'^api/', include('project.urls_core')),

is palced within urls.py

All admin URLs work fine except app indexes.

If I go to any URL such as:

I receive ‘INVALID REQUEST’ as my response. Status code is 200 (OK) though.

I have never received this error message before.

Does anyone have a clue? Thanks guys!

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-15T08:05:00+00:00

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I think some middleware, that strips the leading api/ from the url should help you:

import re

class URLPrefixMiddleware:
    def process_request(self, request):
        request.path = re.sub('^api/','',request.path)

You shouldn’t need your additional URL configuration then anymore. Put it in middleware.py in some app dir and add it to installed middleware!

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