Class Based TemplateView 404 error

Question

I am confused as to how to use the TemplateView in Django 1.6.

The HTML Looks like this:

<li><a href="/solutions">Solutions</a></li>

My urls.py looks like this:

 url(r'^/solutions$', solutions.as_view(), name='solutions'),

And the (entire) solutions views.py looks like this:

class solutions(TemplateView):

    template_name = "solutions.html"

Yet I still receive a 404 error when going to www.mysite.com/solutions. I can give the entire traceback upon request. But I am sure I am doing something fundamentally wrong.

Answer 1

Basically your url regex should not start with '/'. It should be :

url(r'^solutions/$', solutions.as_view(), name='solutions')

This would work. You can find more about Naming URL patterns here : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/http/urls/#naming-url-patterns