Opened 2 years ago

Closed 2 years ago

#35379 closed Uncategorized (invalid)

Possible error in documentation

Reported by: NobitaNoobie Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: 5.0
Severity: Normal Keywords: Documentation fault
Cc: NobitaNoobie Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

With reference to the tutorial: ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/intro/tutorial01/
While running the demo polls app in my development server I received the following error message:
Using the URLconf defined in mysite.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:

polls/
admin/
The empty path didn’t match any of these.

But when I changed the mysite\urls, likeso,
urlpatterns = [

path("", include("polls.urls")),
path("admin/", admin.site.urls),

]

I was able to display the desired response. Please check!

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Sarah Boyce, 2 years ago

Resolution: → invalid
Status: new → closed

Hello! Thank you for trying out Django (it's my favourite framework, hope you like it)

In these docs it says:

Go to ​http://localhost:8000/polls/ in your browser, and you should see the text “Hello, world. You’re at the polls index.”, which you defined in the index view.

What I suspect is you've gone to ​http://localhost:8000/ (the page that used to show a rocket). The way you've updated the urlpatterns means would (as you said) show you the desired response at ​http://localhost:8000/

We also have an explicit note in the docs about that 'Page not found error'

If you get an error page here, check that you’re going to ​http://localhost:8000/polls/ and not ​http://localhost:8000/.

So good news, you're not the only person who thought they found an issue here, but I will close this ticket as there isn't a bug in the docs and I think the warning note is quite clear.

In future, you might want to use our ​user support channels if you come across something in your journey with Django. These are the best places to get support 👍

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