Error 404 Message | Django | PyCharm

Question

Right, is there any particular valid reason as to why - despite me doing everything correctly - do I get the error 404 message when I deploy my development server (on port 8000) from PyCharm?

This is the tutorial I am following Youtube Tutorial which I have followed to the letter. Why does it work for him and not for me?

I have confirmation the services has started. I have started this y using the following command

python manage.py runserver

Why is is that when setting my URL paths in the /urls config file on Django framework, does the browser just decide not to bother to actually read the file?

• I have tried changing the port number in the settings on the PyCharm app - but what would have been way too simple.
• I have tried closing down the app then starting it back up - of course that didn't work because that would have made my life way too easy
• I've tried Googling the problem, it suggested the above

Here is my code below, first first snippet is apparently where the problem lies according to the browser. They're in separate files:

#Filename: pyshop/urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include

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

from django.urls import path
from . import views


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

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render


def index(request):
return HttpResponse('Hello World')

You will see its not my code. So what is it? And how do I get rid of the 404 problem?

Error 404 message

Answer 1

The URL http://example.com/ (that is an empty path!) matches neither the prefix admin/ nor the prefix admin/.

Append either prefix to the URL you are attempting to open (e.g. try openinig http://example.com/admin/), or add a new entry in your urlpatterns about where the empty URL should point/redirect to.