Django URLS, how to map root to app?

Question

I am pretty new to django but experienced in Python and java web programming with different frameworks. I have made myself a nice little django app, but I cant seem to make it m

Answer 1

I also wanted to have the root of my domain to directly point to a view of a sub app.

At first I created the sub app with this command:

python3 manage.py startapp main offer_finder/main

In your case it would be:

python3 manage.py startapp myApp project/somedirectory/myApp

make sure that the directory exists: mkdir -p project/somedirectory/myApp

This is my project structure: Project structure

In my case I have these directories:

offer_finder_project/offer_finder/main        # sub app  
offer_finder_project/offer_finder/            # main source directory  

in offer_finder_project/offer_finder/urls.py I have this code:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include


urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', include('offer_finder.main.urls')),
]

And in offer_finder_project/offer_finder/main/urls.py I have this code:

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.index),
]

And the offer_finder_project/offer_finder/main/views.py file simply contains some test code.

from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
    return HttpResponse("TEST app index")

This way your requests to your root domain are directed to your sub app. Hopefully this helps someone. This code was tested with Django 2.1.4.