Django redirect to root from a view

Question

I am creating a django project. However, I have come across a small hiccup. My urls.py looks like this

url(r\'^login/(?P)$\', \'Home.views.log         


        

Answer 1

If you look at the documentation for redirect, there are several things you can pass to the function:

• A model
• A view name
• A URL

In general, I think it's better to redirect to a view name rather than a URL. In your case, assuming your urls.py has an entry that looks something like:

url(r'^$', 'Home.views.index'),

I would instead use redirect like this:

redirect('Home.views.index')

Answer 2

I am using Django 3.1. This is what I do to achieve this:

in urls.py

from django.shortcuts import redirect

urlpatterns = [
    path('', lambda req: redirect('/myapp/')),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('myapp/', include('myapp.urls'))
]