Django urlconf issue (know there has to be a simple answer)

Question

Hi I am a beginner with django and all I have left to deploy the site is a stupid url conf problem. I have a simple site with 5 pages that are home,contact,about,reasons, and benefits. Simple right, url conf will be (r'^home/$',index), and as follows for the rest of the pages. Here is the problem when I go to the home page /home/ fine. Now go to any other page on the navigation like /reasons/ or /about/,they dont get called like that, instead get called /home/reasons/ or /home/about/. Even more so if from /home/about/ I click back to home the call is /home/about/home. As you see this goes on forever. How can it be where every request to a page is a simple /about/ or /contact/ instead of /home/contact or /home/about.

I had defined one that went /home/contact/home/home/about/reasons/home I cant possibly put all those in urlconf

Note: this is all being ran on django dev server

Answer 1

If your urls look like this:

(r'^home/$', myapp.views.index)

then use it in template as:

<a href="{% url myapp.views.index %}>some text</a>

to avoid wrong interpretation. Django will do the rest.

For Django 1.5 use

<a href="{% url 'myapp.views.index' %}>some text</a>

Answer 2

Make sure that in your templates you're using absolute URLs, so instead of

<a href="contacts">Contacts</a>

it should be

<a href="/contacts/">Contacts</a>

and there is no base tag in your template

Answer 3

Make sure you're links on your page look like

<a href="/home/">...</a> <-- this will take you to home page

and NOT

<a href="home/">...</a> <-- this will take you to {current_url}/home/