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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

Why am I getting a 404 error when trying to access my website's domain name, yet if I domain name/home it works?

Okay... let's try to explain things clearly. I've used Python Django to create a dynamic webpage/web-app. After completing the website I have published it using DigitalOcean and have successfully attached my purchased domain name to the name server of DigitalOcean. When I access my website, ordinanceservices.com, i get an error 404; however, if I type ordinanceservices.com/home it works as it should and displays the home page. How, by editing the python files, can I have it to where ordinanceservices.com will display the home page as opposed to error 404? I feel like there's something that I am doing that is fundamentally wrong regarding my .urls structure and thus a rewrite/redirect in the nginx config should not be necessary.
Here is the specific error:
Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://ordinanceservices.com/
Using the URLconf defined in django_project.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
^admin/
^ ^home/ [name='home']
^ ^contact/ [name='contact']
^ ^services/ [name='services']
The current URL, , didn't match any of these.
I somewhat understand what is happening here though I do not know how to fix this. Next I will provide my .urls files for each folder that contains such:
/django_project urls.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^', include('company.urls')),
)
/company urls.py
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^home/', views.home, name='home'),
url(r'^contact/', views.contact, name='contact'),
url(r'^services/', views.services, name='services'),
]
/company views.py
from django.shortcuts import render
def home(request):
return render(request, 'company/home.html')
def contact(request):
return render(request, 'company/contact.html')
def services(request):
return render(request, 'company/services.html')
What I am aiming to do, without needing to redirect the main URL using the nginx config files to do so, is to edit my urls and views structure of my Python files to ensure that the normal URL, ordinanceservices.com, will actually display a page; preferably the home page of my webpage.
I have a hunch that it has to do with the fact that I do not have a views.index for the r'^admin/' to reach to. I am not certain but I have been trying to figure this out for hours. Does anyone have a clue what I can do to fix this?

You haven't defined anything at the root url. Add one more line to your company urls.py so it becomes
//company urls.py
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.home, name='home'),
url(r'^home/', views.home, name='home'),
url(r'^contact/', views.contact, name='contact'),
url(r'^services/', views.services, name='services'),
]

First of all, check if you have added www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com to ALLOWED_HOST = ['www.yourdomain.com','yourdomain.com'] in your settings.py
and then in your company/urls.py do this
from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.home, name='home'),
url(r'^contact/$', views.contact, name='contact'),
url(r'^services/$', views.services, name='services'),
]
and in your main urls.py add this code
from django.conf.urls import url,include
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^', include('company.urls')),
]

Page not found with Django (404)

In my django project, when I access localhost:8000 it says:
Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://localhost:8000/
The urls.py is:
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
from polls import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace="polls")),
]
The polls urls.py is:
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.contrib import admin
from polls import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
url(r'^(?P<question_id>\d+)/$', views.detail, name='detail'),
url(r'^(?P<question_id>\d+)/vote/$', views.vote, name='vote'),
url(r'^(?P<question_id>\d+)/results/$', views.results, name='results'),
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]
The Django version is 1.10. Can anyone help me identify the problem? Thanks in advance.

You do not have a route for / it seems, so http://localhost:8000/ does not get you anywhere.
You wrote url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace="polls")), in urls.py so all the routes defined in polls.urls are to be prefixed with polls/.
You may actually want to go to http://localhost:8000/polls/ (notice the polls/, because the route you defined as index is listed in the polls app.
Had you wanted to route your polls index to your url root, you should change urls.py to something like
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^', include('polls.urls', namespace="polls")),
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]
and the forget about the polls/ part in the urls.

In main urls.py change
from
url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace="polls")),
to
url(r'^$', include('poll.urls')),

Django URL not working

Going to localhost/app works, but localhost/app/upload does not. Am I doing something really obviously wrong? I've tried a few different methods following the documentation without luck. I get a 404 saying the URL pattern does not match.
/project/app/urls.py
from app import views
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^$', views.view, name='result'),
url(r'^upload/$', views.upload, name='upload'),
)
/project/urls.py
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^app/$', include('app.urls')),
)

Don't terminate the inclusion URL.
url(r'^app/', include('app.urls')),

Django urls.py only one app

I just started playing with Django, I love it! I followed the tutorial from the Django documentation, but have the following question:
I only have one app (polls), currently I always have localhost/polls/{urlname}
Is there a way to remove the polls keyword? So people that go to localhost automatically go to my app polls? At the moment, I have this wildcard
url(r'.*$', RedirectView.as_view(url='polls/', permanent=False), name='index'),
But this still keeps polls in the url. This is my complete urls.py file:
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace="polls")),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'.*$', RedirectView.as_view(url='polls/', permanent=False), name='index'),
)
Thanks in advance!

Just remove the polls/ prefix in the regex of the "include" url:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^', include('polls.urls', namespace="polls")),
...
)