How do you make a about page route?

#django #python #help #html

I’m trying to create a simple route for a about page:

path(‘about/‘ aboutpage_view, as_view(), name=‘about’)

But it’s not working,
It says it can’t find the name, then also it can’t find the views.

I named it def aboutpage_view

Top comments (7)

H Lee • Aug 23 '20

If it's a class based view, the as_view function is a member of the class View, that you inherited from:

path("about/", aboutpage_view.as_view(), name="about")

If it's a functional view, you don't even need the as_view function:

path("about/", aboutpage_view, name="about")

Oh and don't forget the comma after the first parameter.

Bret • Aug 23 '20

It starts out as def aboutpage_view,
I tried that but it didn’t work

Bret • Aug 23 '20

It was the templates folder, it wasn’t with manage.py

Richard • Aug 23 '20 • Edited

As H lee said if it's a functional view you need to link your app.urls in the main project URLs and then you can do from app import views then in your app URLs you can add views.aboutpage_view

Make sure you have an about view:

#app views.py
def aboutpage_view():
      return whatever

#app URLs
urlpatterns = [
   path('about/', view.aboutpage_view, name='about')
]

# main project URLs
path("", include ('app.urls'))