Re: url - hot to set properly?

On 27 March 2011 14:51, Pascal Germroth <funkycoder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>    urlpatterns = patterns('',
>>    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
>>    (r'^', include('apps.textcontent.urls')),
>>    )
>
>> when i pass: /admin/ all is ok, but when I pass /admin -
>> apps.textcontent.urls are executed, but why?
>
> Well because the URL pattern is a regular expression that is matched against
> the URL, and you explicitly stated that there has to be a / at the end.
>
> Change it to url(r'^admin/?',…) and it will work both with '/admin' and
> '/admin/'.
>
> But: this is bad URL etiquette. You should choose a schema (/ or not) and
> stick with it. Even better: create a view that matches the opposite of your
> chosen schema and permanently redirects to the correct URL (or enable
> normalisation in your webserver, that would be easier)

Good news, Django already provides a way to do this. See
APPEND_SLASH[1] setting and CommonMiddleware[2].

[1]: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/settings/#append-slash
[2]: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/middleware/#django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware

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