Django: Redirect if the link doesn't match urlpatterns

Question

How do I make django to redirect from www.example.com to www.example.com/home ?

Below you can see my urlpaterns and I'm using url(r'', RedirectView.as_view(pattern_name='home', permanent=False))to redirect to my /home page but when it detects a link without / at the end it redirects me to the /home page.

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
    url(r'^home/', views.home, name="home"),
    url(r'^surukkam/$',views.shrink,name="surukkam"),
    url(r'^(?P<inputURL>[0-9a-zA-Z]+)/$',views.retrieve,name="virivu"),
    url(r'', RedirectView.as_view(pattern_name='home', permanent=False))
]

Try with `r'.*'` since `r''` would only match an empty string. — solarc, Jun 12 '18 at 22:15

Akash D · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-13T00:39:03.363

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it is redirecting because you missed ^$ at the end of home URL.

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/$', admin.site.urls),
    url(r'^home/$', views.home, name="home"),
    url(r'^surukkam/$',views.shrink,name="surukkam"),
    url(r'^(?P<inputURL>[0-9a-zA-Z]+)/$',views.retrieve,name="virivu"),
    url(r'^$', RedirectView.as_view(pattern_name='home', permanent=False))
]

^$ - it is a regular expression that specifies the start and end points of a URL string.

whenever your Django detects the empty string it will direct to this URL.

edited Jun 13 '18 at 00:39

answered Jun 13 '18 at 00:33

Akash D

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I'm glad it helped :) – Akash D Jun 13 '18 at 11:11
sorry if I ask but is a way to make that to redirect to sh.mysite instead of www.mysite? Also, I removed the home so I have just sh.example.tk ^^ – Marcel Alexandru Jun 14 '18 at 16:27
I cant understand can you elaborate.what is `sh`? – Akash D Jun 15 '18 at 05:17

Django: Redirect if the link doesn't match urlpatterns

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