django url not working except admin - django

Question

hi guys my django app urls are not working
below is my project urls.py
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^', include('recipe.urls', namespace="recipe")),
)
and here is my app urls.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns,url
urlpatterns = patterns('recipe.views',
url(r'^$', 'index', name='index'),
url(r'^create/recipe/$', 'create_recipe', name='create_recipe'),
url(r'^create/ingredients/(?P<recipe_id>\d+)/$', 'create_ingredients',
name="create_ingredients"),
url(r'^create/steps/(?P<recipe_id>\d+)/$', 'create_steps',
name="create_steps"),
url(r'^view/recipe/(?P<recipe_id>\d+)/$', 'view_recipe',
name="view_recipe"),
)
I am not able to get the index page and other urls except admin is working fine. Please help me

Answer 1

From the question comments it seems you are having issues with Django's templates instead of urlconfig. Here is how Django templates work. In your settings.py you define a variable TEMPLATES_DIRS where you specify a tuple of all directories where Django will look for templates.
Assume you have the following TEMPLATES_DIRS:
TEMPLATES_DIRS = (
'/absolute/path/to/foo',
'/absolute/path/to/bar',
)
Then if you look for a template base.html, Django will look for it in the following places and will use the first location if it finds one:
/absolute/path/to/foo/base.html
/absolute/path/to/bar/base.html
In your case you mentioned that you store your templates in both the Django's project folder as well as the app's folder. In that case you have to make sure that both folders are defined in TEMPLATES_DIRS like:
TEMPLATES_DIRS = (
'/absolute/path/to/project/templates',
'/absolute/path/to/app/templates',
)
Then in your case Django will be able to find both base.html and index.html. Now to make things simpler you can define PROJECT_PATH in your settings.py which will store the absolute path to your project path so that you can easily move your project to a different location. I think this is where your issue might be. In Django >= 1.4, you have the following project structure:
/project <= this should be your PROJECT_PATH
/project <= instead of this
templates/
base.html
settings.py
/recipe
templates/
index.html
models.py
With that in mind try using something like this:
PROJECT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(__file__, '..', '..'))
PROJECT_NAME = os.path.basename(PROJECT_PATH)
TEMPLATES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, PROJECT_NAME, 'templates'),
os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'recipe', 'templates')
)
In the above PROJECT_PATH calculates the absolute path of the project. Imagine that your settings.py is located at /some/path/project/project/settings.py. Then you compute the project path as follows:
>>> # settings.py
>>> print __file__
/some/path/project/project/settings.py
>>> print os.path.join(__file__, '..', '..')
/some/path/project/project/settings.py/../../
>>> # now abspath normalizes the path two levels up
>>> print os.path.abspath(os.path.join(__file__, '..', '..'))
/some/path/project
>>> # now you figure out the project name so that you can get the project templates folder
>>> print os.path.basename(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(__file__, '..', '..')))
project
>>> print os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, PROJECT_NAME, 'templates')
/some/path/project/project/templates
>>> print os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'recipe', 'templates')
/some/path/project/recipe/templates

Answer 2

In your settings.py, find and edit this -
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), "templates"),
)