django-cms and cmsplugin-news - django

Question

I have been wrangling with Django for some weeks now, putting it down, picking it up, and now I am convinced that it's what I want to use. I got a site up and running with django-cms, but have a small challenge with cmsplugin-news.
I can input news items, list latest news items, and all works fine. However, when I click on an individual news item to view the detail, I get a 404 page not found error.
Here is my urls.py and settings.py file, respectively.
URLS.PY
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin
from django.conf import settings
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^', include('cms.urls')),
url(r'^news/', include('cmsplugin_news.urls')),
)
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^' + settings.MEDIA_URL.lstrip('/'), include('appmedia.urls')),
) + urlpatterns
SETTINGS.PY
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import os
gettext = lambda s: s
PROJECT_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG
ADMINS = (
# ('Your Name', 'your_email#domain.com'),
)
MANAGERS = ADMINS
LANGUAGES = [('en', 'en'),('jp','jp')]
DEFAULT_LANGUAGE = 0
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'anadacms.db'),
}
}
# Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here:
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
# although not all choices may be available on all operating systems.
# On Unix systems, a value of None will cause Django to use the same
# timezone as the operating system.
# If running in a Windows environment this must be set to the same as your
# system time zone.
TIME_ZONE = 'America/Chicago'
# Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here:
# http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
SITE_ID = 1
# If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not
# to load the internationalization machinery.
USE_I18N = True
# If you set this to False, Django will not format dates, numbers and
# calendars according to the current locale
USE_L10N = True
# Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files.
# Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/"
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'media')
# URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
# trailing slash if there is a path component (optional in other cases).
# Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com", "http://example.com/media/"
MEDIA_URL = "http://portal.workpapers.pro/media/"
# URL prefix for admin media -- CSS, JavaScript and images. Make sure to use a
# trailing slash.
# Examples: "http://foo.com/media/", "/media/".
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/admin/media/'
# Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
SECRET_KEY = 'MYSECRETKEY'
# List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
)
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'cms.middleware.page.CurrentPageMiddleware',
'cms.middleware.user.CurrentUserMiddleware',
'cms.middleware.toolbar.ToolbarMiddleware',
'cms.middleware.media.PlaceholderMediaMiddleware',
)
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
'django.core.context_processors.auth',
'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
'django.core.context_processors.request',
'django.core.context_processors.media',
'cms.context_processors.media',
)
CMS_TEMPLATES = (
('example.html', 'Basic Template'),
('template_1.html', 'Template One'),
('template_2.html', 'Template Two'),
)
ROOT_URLCONF = 'urls'
CMS_APPLICATIONS_URLS = (
('cmsplugin_news.urls', 'News'),
)
CMS_NAVIGATION_EXTENDERS = (
('cmsplugin_news.navigation.get_nodes', 'News navigation'),
)
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'templates'),
)
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.admin',
'cms',
'menus',
'mptt',
'appmedia',
'south',
'cms.plugins.text',
'cms.plugins.picture',
'cms.plugins.link',
'cms.plugins.file',
'cms.plugins.snippet',
'cms.plugins.googlemap',
'publisher',
'cms.plugins.teaser',
'cms.plugins.video',
'cms.plugins.twitter',
'cmsplugin_facebook',
'cmsplugin_news',
)
Here is a link to the urls.py file for the cmsplugin-news app:
https://bitbucket.org/MrOxiMoron/cmsplugin-news/src/03ba1b86624b/cmsplugin_news/urls.py

Answer 1

The problem is very simple: The cms.urls should always be last in your urlconf because it eats every request.
Changing your urls.py to this should fix it::
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin
from django.conf import settings
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^news/', include('cmsplugin_news.urls')),
# MUST BE LAST!!!
url(r'^', include('cms.urls')),
)
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^' + settings.MEDIA_URL.lstrip('/'), include('appmedia.urls')),
) + urlpatterns