Question

This is probably something really simple but for some reason I just can’t seem to do it.

I’m trying to output some data from a blog (app) that I have created. The blog is working fine and out putting the content in the model fields that I have created and outputting to the templates I have specified.

But when tryingn to output the information out to the homepage nothing is showing. I’m fairly new to django and I think I might be missing something.

Do I need to include something to pages that are outside of the app? or do I need to set up somethin in the urls file?

I hope this makes sense as I don’t think it’s anything to complicated but I just think I’m missing something!

Thanks.

CODE:

url(r'blog/(?P<slug>[-\w]+)/$', 'blog.views.blog', name="blog"),
   url(r'blog/', 'blog.views.blog_index', name="blog_index"),


def blog_index(request):
    blogs = Blog.objects.filter(active=True)

    return render_to_response('blog/index.html', {
        'blogs':blogs,
    }, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

def blog(request, slug):
    blog = get_object_or_404(Blog, active=True, slug=slug)

    return render_to_response('blog/blog_post.html', {
        'blog': blog
    }, context_instance=RequestContext(request))





class Blog(TimeStampedActivate):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=255, help_text="Can be anything up to 255 character")
    slug = models.SlugField()
    description = models.TextField(blank=True, help_text="Give a short description of the news post")
    content = models.TextField(blank=True, help_text="This is the main content for the news post")
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name="blog")

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.title

    @models.permalink
    def get_absolute_url(self):
        return ('blog', (), {
            'slug': self.slug
        })

Answer 1

Are you saying that going to mysite.com/blog/ is displaying correctly, but you also want it to be the sites index page at mysite.com?

If so, you need to add a new pattern to your projects urls.py file, like so:

url(r'^$', 'blog.views.blog_index')

Doing this will make mysite.com/blog/ and mysite.com route to the same view.