Why is my Python Django home url not working?

Question

my first url in django is not working. Not sure what I am doing. My directories are as follows:

Storefront

• playground
  • urls.py
  • views.py
• storefront
  • urls.py

playground.urls

from nturl2path import url2pathname
from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('hello/', views.hello)
]

playground.views

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse


def hello(request):
    return HttpResponse('Hello World')

storefront.urls

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('playground/', include('playground.urls'))
]

When I go to the website/playground/url, I get an error saying the urls wasn't found. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Edit: Sorry I realized what I wrote before was incorrect because I answered it in a rush.

I used the exact code you put in the question and was unable to reproduce the error.

Make sure you are going to the following web address:

127.0.0.1:8000/playground/hello

The reason this is the address is because in storefront.urls you are specifying that the root of the storefront app is the "playground/" route and the only route in the playground app is "hello/".

If you want to go to the following and have it show the "hello" view like this:

127.0.0.1:8000/playground/

You will need to change:

path('hello/', views.hello)

to this instead:

path('', views.hello)

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