django redirect inside of urls.py

Question

I plan on having several different apps inside my django project, each for a new technology I want to play around with. As I work on each on, I want to have the root URL path redirect to the project I'm working on.

Directory Structure:

backyard/
    my_project/
        views.py
    backyard/
        urls.py

backyard/backyard/urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.shortcuts import redirect

urlpatterns = patterns('',

    url(r'^$', redirect('my_app/')),
    url(r'^my_project/$', 'my_project.views.homepage'),

)

backyard/my_project/views.py

def homepage(request):
    return render_to_response('my_project/index.html', {'data':data})

When I access the page at http:machine-name:8000/ I get an error saying The included urlconf backyard.urls doesn't have any patterns in it I most definitely have URLs in my urls.py, what is the issue?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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A URLconf needs to map regexes to views -- the redirect function doesn't return a view; rather, it returns an HttpResponse. You can look at this question for an example of how to define a redirect directly in the URLconf.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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answered Jun 11 '14 at 17:32

Ismail Badawi

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Sry, it is like that. I should have included it. Please see my edit. – smilebomb Jun 11 '14 at 17:34
@jefffabiny That will just give you a syntax error at the import statement. – Ismail Badawi Jun 11 '14 at 17:37
Correct. I'm going too fast here for my own good... Again, it is like that in my file. I've corrected it again. – smilebomb Jun 11 '14 at 17:38
@jefffabiny Okay, I guess it's just a weird error message then. It'll work if you use a `RedirectView` like in the linked question. – Ismail Badawi Jun 11 '14 at 17:43

django redirect inside of urls.py

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