Django URL without trailing slash not working

Question

This is a silly problem. I just created a project and have been trying to figure out this problem.

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.views.generic import TemplateView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="index.html")),
    url(r'^about$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),
    url(r'^contact$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="contact.html"), name="contact"),
    url(r'^test$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="test_start"), name="test_start"),
    url(r'^test/sample$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="test_start"), name="test_start"),
]

is included into

from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.contrib import admin

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
    url(r'^', include('frontend.urls'))
]

When I go to localhost:8000/about, I get redirected to localhost:8000/about/ and there I get 404 Not Found.

UPDATE: I added more URLs into my URLconf.

UPDATE 2: I meant to not include trailing slashes. My apologies.

UPDATE 3: I opened the same URL in Firefox and the URL works like I intend. Could this be a problem with redirection and browser cache?

Your config looks fine. From which browser/Rest Client are you testing? — Priyansh Goel, Mar 12 '16 at 23:14
I am using templates from another project. I'll take a look at the templates to see if I can figure anything out. And the browser is Google Chrome. — Magnus Teekivi, Mar 12 '16 at 23:15

maazza · Answer 1 · 2016-03-13T00:28:09.060

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Did you enable the append_slash setting ? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#append-slash

using this may help to make it more explicit and is recommended throughout the django tutorials

url(r'^about/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),

EDIT:

Deactivate the APPEND_SLASH settings (False) and use

url(r'^about$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),

edited Mar 13 '16 at 00:28

answered Mar 12 '16 at 23:21

maazza

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Sorry, the slashes in the end of the patterns are typos. I actually want to remove the trailing slashes. – Magnus Teekivi Mar 12 '16 at 23:25

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 22 '20 at 03:54

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First, I found out that Chrome automatically adds trailing slash at the end of the URL

Trailing URL Slashes in Django

So if you don't have a trailing slash on your URLS, a 404 redirect will show if you're using Chrome, but not if, say, Firefox.

Then from the comment of knbk from here,

How Django adds trailing slash

I made sure I had the CommonMiddleware class in setting.py and added 'APPEND_SLASH = False'

Then, cleared Chrome's cache, and problem solved!

answered Dec 22 '20 at 03:54

JNewbie

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helpfull!!..Thanks – ronit May 18 '21 at 15:57
this is actually explained why the setting never worked because it's not he server problem it's a browser default settings! – Linh Nguyen Jul 07 '21 at 02:45

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 12 '16 at 23:17

You can just remove the $ from your regex, this indicates the end of line

url(r'^about', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),

You could also just include a slash to your regex, since Django has a APPEND_SLASH setting which will issue a redirect

url(r'^about/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),

if the request URL does not match any of the patterns in the URLconf and it doesn’t end in a slash, an HTTP redirect is issued to the same URL with a slash appended.

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 12 '16 at 23:16

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Change your url pattern for "about" to:

url(r'^about/?$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),

Without the /?, the regex ^about$ matches a string containing exactly the word "about".

answered Mar 12 '16 at 23:16

Vasili Korol

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Sadly, for some reason this does not help. – Magnus Teekivi Mar 12 '16 at 23:17

Django URL without trailing slash not working

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