STATIC_ROOT The absolute path to the directory where ./manage.py collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: STATIC_ROOT=”/var/www/example.com/static/” now the command ./manage.py collectstatic will copy all the static files(ie in static folder in your apps, static files in all paths) to the directory /var/www/example.com/static/. now you only need to serve this directory on apache or … Read more
Like this: place = Places.objects.get(name=”kansas”) print(place.id)
If you need to use something similar to the {% url %} template tag in your code, Django provides the django.core.urlresolvers.reverse(). The reverse function has the following signature: reverse(viewname, urlconf=None, args=None, kwargs=None) https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/urlresolvers/ At the time of this edit the import is django.urls import reverse
I had the same problem. It turns out I was confused because of the multiple directories named “mysite”. I wrongly created a urls.py file in the root “mysite” directory (which contains “manage.py”), then pasted in the code from the website. To correct it I deleted this file, went into the mysite/mysite directory (which contains “settings.py”), … Read more
First, make sure that you send the request to http://127.0.0.1/add/ not http://127.0.0.1/add. Secondly, you may also want to exempt the view from csrf processing by adding the @csrf_exempt decorator – since you aren’t sending the appropriate token from cURL.
the first argument to your view should be request
This is certainly view logic; all urls.py is for is for matching URL patterns, not performing validation. You can use the Http404 exception to handle this. from django.http import Http404 def detail(request, poll_id): try: p = Poll.objects.get(pk=poll_id) except Poll.DoesNotExist: raise Http404 return render_to_response(‘polls/detail.html’, {‘poll’: p}) Alternatively, you may find the get_object_or_404 or get_list_or_404 methods, which … Read more
If you want a list of all the urls in your project, first you need to install django-extensions You can simply install using command. pip install django-extensions For more information related to package goto django-extensions After that, add django_extensions in INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py file like this: INSTALLED_APPS = ( … ‘django_extensions’, … ) urls.py … Read more
You can not pass directly str as a django response . You must use from django.http import HttpResponse if you want to render string data as django view response. have a look django.http.HttpResponse return HttpResponse(resp)
(‘^(?P<first_name>[a-zA-Z]+)/(?P<last_name>[a-zA-Z]+)(?:/(?P<title>[a-zA-Z]+))?/$’,’some_method’), Don’t forget to give title a default value in the view.