So, I added this to the urlpatterns var:
(r'^$', 'mysite.polls.views.current_datetime'),
...and this to views.py located in the polls directory
from django.http import HttpResponse
import datetime
def current_datetime(request):
now = datetime.datetime.now()
html = "<html><body>It is now %s.</body></html>" % now
return HttpResponse(html)
When I open a browser and go to http://www.mysite.com I wind up in the
mysite.com directory on my Dreamhost server, rather than the url being
mapped to the django site located at /home/username/projects/mysite.
Thanks,
Jason
On Nov 3, 4:10 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I understand the mapping of urls.py but I guess I'm not clear on a few
> > things to begin with, like what is the equivalent to an index.html
> > page in django? I know that the system works off of a template system
> > like using "base.html" as the design skeleton for a site and extending
> > that system with calls to different views, but what happens when I
> > want to just request the index page for a django site? Let's say I
> > register and add a subdomain to my Dreamhost account say...
> > mysite.com, when I issue the startproject command as django-admin.py
> > startproject mysite is there some sort of connection between the two?
> > Do I scrap the Dreamhost generated directory "mysite.com" and the
> > actual command I should be issuing is django-admin.py startproject
> > mysite.COM? What is returned for an index page if there is no
> > ndex.html or index.php?
>
> Your site's root page is whatever is mapped to r"^$", the empty URL.
>
> It's the same for directories. If you *want* to map something on to
> .../something.html you can, but there is no need to. When a
> "directory-like URL" is passed by a browser the returned result is
> whatever is generated by the view the the URL is mapped to. Or a 404 if
> no such mapping can be found.
>
> regards
> Steve
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