In a web framework such as Django, you don’t have separate pages. What you have are views into a (usually) database. You’ll often have one template that supplies one view with as many pages as there are records in the database.
We’re going to start with a single view that displays all live posts. In your Blog folder make a folder called “templates”, and copy the template.html file into that folder as “index.html”.
Open views.py in postings and add:
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
def listPosts(request):
return render_to_response('index.html')
Open urls.py and add this to the bottom of urlpatterns:
(r'^$', 'Blog.postings.views.listPosts'),
It should look something like this:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
…
(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
(r'^$', 'Blog.postings.views.listPosts'),
)
The urlpatterns items use regular expressions to send different URL requests to different functions.
Look in settings.py for TEMPLATE_DIRS. Add the full path to your templates folder to it:
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
…
'/Users/jerry/Desktop/Django/Blog/templates',
)
If you now go to http://localhost:8000/ you should see the Old Dead Guys Blog main page.
