Django - include app urls

pistacchio picture pistacchio · Apr 8, 2013 · Viewed 28.6k times · Source

I have the following structure (Django 1.4):

containing_dir/
    myproject/
        myapp1/
        myapp2/
        myapp3/

myproject, myapp1, myapp2, and myapp3 all have init.py, so they're all modules.

In manage.py (under containing_dir) I have os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "myproject.settings")

in myproject.settings i define:

[..]
ROOT_URLCONF = 'myproject.urls'
INSTALLED_APPS = (   
    [..]
    'myproject.myapp1',
    'myproject.myapp2',
    'myproject.myapp3',
)
[..]

In myapp1.urls.py I define:

urlpatterns = patterns('myapp1',
    url(r'^agent/$', 'views.agent',    name='agent')
)

and I try to import it in myproject.urls I try to import myapp1 urls like this:

(r'^myapp1/', include('myproject.myapp1.urls'))

but whenever I try lo load localhost:8000/myapp1/agent I get

Exception Value: No module named myapp1

I think thrown from withing myapp1.urls

Any help? thanks

Answer

Raydel Miranda picture Raydel Miranda · Dec 4, 2013

You must have a

__init__.py

file inside your "myproject" directory. When you say:

(r'^myapp1/', include('myproject.myapp1.urls'))

you are saying "myproject" (as well as myapp1) is a python packege.