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Every url in a django app only renders home.html

So, I am not really lucky with latest django version tutorials, so I've had some problems with things that changed between some versions. One of this things is: althought I do exactly as I read/watch in the tutorials I always get the same result - all urls redirect to the same HTML page.
Here is my root urls.py
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
url(r'^', include('theblog.urls')),
]
Here is my app urls:
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from .views import HomeView, ArticleDetailView
urlpatterns = [
url('', HomeView.as_view(), name='home'),
url('^article/<int:pk>', ArticleDetailView.as_view(), name='article-detail'),
]
For example, when I go to localhost:8000/articles/1 (or any other pk), it renders home.html (HomeView class) as if it was localhost:8000/.
Hope you can help me. Thanks!

There are two things wrong with your code.
url('^article/<int:pk>', ArticleDetailView.as_view(), name='article-detail'),
This will not work. If you want to use url. you can't use <int:pk>, you need to use a RegEx:
url("article/([0-9]+)/", ArticleDetailView.as_view(), name="article-detail")
Note that this will be deprecated in the future and if you are using django >=2.0 you should use path:
path("article/<int:article>/", ArticleDetailView.as_view(), name="article-detail")
However this will still direct you to the wrong view. django stops after the first URL pattern match.
Switch them around to fix that:
urlpatterns = [
url("article/([0-9]+)/", ArticleDetailView.as_view(), name="article-detail"),
# path("article/<int:article>/", ArticleDetailView.as_view(), name="article-detail"), # alternative with path instead of url
url('', HomeView.as_view(), name='home')
]

It may be due to this line
url('', HomeView.as_view(), name='home'),
Because url wraps re_path there may be some logic which will treat the blank regex string as a wildcard. Try changing it to '/'
url('/', HomeView.as_view(), name='home'),

Django can't map url to view using include method

I have the following urls.py in my project dir,
Main project urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.render_calculator, name='render_calculator'),
path('calculator/', views.render_calculator, name='render_calculator'),
path('disclaimer/', views.render_disclaimer, name='render_disclaimer'),
path('cookiepolicy/', views.render_cookiepolicy, name='render_cookiepolicy'),
path('privacypolicy/', views.render_privacypolicy, name='render_privacypolicy'),
path('dashboard/', views.render_dashboard, name='render_dashboard'),
path('about/', views.render_about, name='render_about'),
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path(r'^', include('accounts.urls'))
]
Now I created a new app accounts (I added it to my apps in settings.py) where I would like to store the urls of that app in its own dir like so:
Accounts app urls.py
from . import views
from django.urls import path
urlpatterns = [
path('register/', views.render_register, name='render_register'),
]
Accounts app views.py:
from django.shortcuts import render
def render_register(request, template="register.html"):
return render(request, template)
However, this configuration throws me this error:
Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/register
Using the URLconf defined in CFD.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
[name='render_calculator']
calculator/ [name='render_calculator']
disclaimer/ [name='render_disclaimer']
cookiepolicy/ [name='render_cookiepolicy']
privacypolicy/ [name='render_privacypolicy']
dashboard/ [name='render_dashboard']
about/ [name='render_about']
admin/
^
The current path, register, didn't match any of these.
Where is the missing piece?

You are using path() with the regex r'^' which is causing your problem.
In order to define a path with a regex, you need to use re_path.
So change it to the following line:
re_path(r'^', include('accounts.urls'))
or you can use
path('', include('accounts.urls'))

Change this.
path(r'^', include('accounts.urls')) to
path('', include('accounts.urls'))

Django 2 namespace and app_name

I am having a difficult time understanding the connection between app_name and namespace.
consider the project level urls.py
from django.urls import path, include
urlpatterns = [
path('blog/', include('blog.urls', namespace='blog')),
]
consider the app level (blog) urls.py
from django.urls import path
from . import views
app_name = 'blog'
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.post_list, name='post_list'),
path('<int:year>/<int:month>/<int:day>/<slug:post>/', views.post_detail, name='post_detail'),
]
if I comment out app_name, I get the following.
'Specifying a namespace in include() without providing an app_name '
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Specifying a namespace in include() without providing an app_name is not supported. Set the app_name attribute in
the included module, or pass a 2-tuple containing the list of patterns and app_name instead.
If I rename app_name to some arbitrary string, I don't get an error.
app_name = 'x'
I've read the documentation but its still not clicking. Can someone tell me how/why app_name and namespace are connected and why are they allowed to have different string values? Isn't manually setting app_name redundant?

try removing app_name='blog'
In your case you should be using:
'blog:post_list'
and
'blog:post_detail'
You can also remove the namespace='blog' in your first url like so:
urlpatterns = [
path('blog/', include('blog.urls')),
]
and then in your templates you can reference the urls without the 'blog:.....':
'post_list'
'post_detail'

try using tuple.
urlpatterns = [
path('blog/', include(('blog.urls', 'blog'))),
]

Django url patterns, redirect from root to other url

This should be an easy enough problem to solve for you guys:
I just started working with Django, and I'm doing some routing. This is my urls.py in the root of the project:
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('', include('dashboard.urls')),
]
This is the routing in my dashboard app:
urlpatterns = [
path('dashboard', views.index, name='index'),
path('', views.index, name='index'),
]
Now let's say I want my users to be redirected to /dashboard if they go to the root of the website. So I would use '' as a route in the urls.py in the root, and then have everyone sent to /dashboard from the urls.py in the dashboard app. But when I do this I get the following warning:
?: (urls.W002) Your URL pattern '/dashboard' [name='index'] has a route beginning with a '/'. Remove this slash as it is unnecessary. If this pattern is targeted in an include(), ensure the include() pattern has a trailing '/'.
So I tried to use '/' instead of '', but since a trailing / is automatically removed from an url, the url wouldn't match the pattern. Should I ignore/mute this warning or is there another way to go about it?
This is the code that worked perfectly but gave me a warning earlier:
urlpatterns = [
path('/dashboard', views.index, name='index'),
path('', views.index, name='index'),
]
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('', include('dashboard.urls'))
]

You can use RedirectView to redirect from / to /dashboard/. Then use 'dashboard' when including the dashboard urls.
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('', RedirectView.as_view(pattern_name='dashboard:index')
path('dashboard/', include('dashboard.urls')),
]
You can then remove 'dashboard' from the path in dashboard/urls.py, as it is already in the include().
app_name = 'dashboard'
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.index, name='index'),
]
I've added app_name='dashboard' to match the namespace used above in pattern_name='dashboard:index'.
Note that Django projects usually use URLs with a trailing slash, e.g. /dashboard/ instead of dashboard.
If you really want to use URLs like /dashboard without a trailing slash, then the include should be
path('dashboard', include('dashboard.urls')),
If you do this, I suggest you set APPEND_SLASH to False in your settings.

You can try something like this:
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
from django.views.generic import RedirectView
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^contacts/', include('appname.contacts.urls')),
url(r'^comments/', include('appname.urls')),
url(r'^subscriptions/', include('appname.partner.urls')),
url(r'^', RedirectView.as_view(url="/admin/"))
]
This is what I've done in my project so whenever the user go to 127.0.0.1:8000 it redirects to /admin

type error django include url... thing that should not be django1.11 python2.7

I am using djangos include feature in my main urls file, from my app urls file.
main urls.py
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
url(r'^posts/', include('posts.urls')),
]
posts.urls.py
from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views #relative import to post views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'$',"views.posts_list" ), #list all posts
url(r'create/$',"views.posts_create" ),
url(r'detail/$',"views.posts_detail" ),
url(r'update/$',"views.posts_update" ),
url(r'delete/$',"views.posts_delete" ),
]
here is the error:
raise TypeError('view must be a callable or a list/tuple in the case of include().')
TypeError: view must be a callable or a list/tuple in the case of include().
I have looked at the docs on this issue:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/urls/#include
and the source code:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/_modules/django/conf/urls/#include
and I have no idea what I am doing wrong.
Please help. Hugs kisses, and high fives

Django 1.10+ no longer allows you to specify views as a string (e.g. 'myapp.views.index') in your URL patterns.
So you should config your posts urls.py like this:
from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.posts_list, name='list'),
url(r'^create/$', views.posts_create, name='create'),
url(r'^detail/$', views.posts_detail, name='detail'),
url(r'^update/$', views.posts_update, name='update'),
url(r'^delete/$', views.posts_delete, name='delete'),
]
It is also a good practice to add name to your urls.