Django Url, Slug for Detail Page
I'm having trouble configuring my url to display a detail view. Clicking on this link: <a href='{% url blog_detail blog.slug %}'>{{ blog.name }}</a> shows blog.html, when I thought it would show blog-detail.html. There are no errors and the browser bar says: example.com/blog/the-slug, yet still displays the html from blog.html, not blog-detail.html. Any ideas why? Thanks for your ideas.
url:
url(r'^blog/', 'myapp.views.blog', name='blog'),
url(r'^blog/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$', 'myapp.views.blog_detail', name='blog_detail'),
views:
def blog(request):
blog_list = Blog.objects.all()
return render(request, 'blog.html', {'blog_list':blog_list})
def blog_detail(request, slug):
blog = get_object_or_404(Blog, slug=slug)
return render(request, 'blog-detail.html', {'blog':blog})
EDIT: output requested by @omouse
This is the output from clicking on the link. It is exactly the same as blog.html, but it should be blog-detail.html.
<div id='content-wrapper'>
<section>
<div class='blog-name'><h2><a href='/blog/test/'>Test</a></h2></div>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a ...
<div class='blog-name'><h2><a href='/blog/second-test/'>Second Test</a></h2></div>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a ...
</section>
</div>
Answer
The urls are the problem, the first one will match everything (/blog/, /blog/test/, /blog/awdlawdjaawld), you need the dollar sign $ at the end of it to only match /blog/.
url(r'^blog/$', 'myapp.views.blog', name='blog'),
url(r'^blog/(?P<slug>[\w-]+)/$', 'myapp.views.blog_detail', name='blog_detail'),
The above should work correctly.