Django how to set main page

Question

i want to set a main page or an index page for my app. i tried adding MAIN_PAGE in settings.py and then creating a main_page view returning a main_page object, but it doesn't work Also, i tries to add in the urls.py a declaration like

(r'^$', index),

where indexshould be the name of the index.html file on the root (but it obviously does not work)

What is the best way to set a main page in a Django website?

thanks!

Answer 1

The new preferred way of doing this would be to use the TemplateView class. See this SO answer if you would like to move from direct_to_template.

In your main urls.py file:

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib import admin
from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
    # the regex ^$ matches empty
    url(r'^$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='static_pages/index.html'),
        name='home'),
]

Note, I choose to put any static pages linke index.html in its own directory static_pages/ within the templates/ directory.