As a newbie to Django, I encountered the same problem as many before me. I would appreciate if you didn't mark my question as a double immediately because I checked the fixes those old posts suggested but to no avail.
I was following this tutorial and have finished with all up to the heading "Projects App: Templates". Now when I start the server, at http://localhost:8000/ I get:
Page not found (404) Request Method: GET Request URL: http://localhost:8000/
Using the URLconf defined in personal_portfolio.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
admin/ projects/The empty path didn't match any of these.
You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page.
This is console output when I run server:
System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
April 05, 2019 - 15:31:54
Django version 2.2, using settings 'personal_portfolio.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.
Not Found: /
[05/Apr/2019 15:32:01] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 2042
Not Found: /favicon.ico
[05/Apr/2019 15:32:01] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 2093
What I tried, but didn't help:
'projects' is inside the INSTALLED_APPS list in settings.py. Here is urls.py that's inside rp-portfolio\personal_portfolio:
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('projects/', include('projects.urls'))
]
Here is urls.py that's inside rp-portfolio\projects:
from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path("", views.project_index, name="project_index"),
path("<int:pk>/", views.project_detail, name="project_detail"),
]
In the urls.py
from django.urls import path
from django.views.generic import RedirectView
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('projects/', include('projects.urls')),
path('', RedirectView.as_view(url='/projects/')),
]