django admin page wont show

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I have seen several questions relating to this topic but none work for me I am running Django 3 and python 3 with ubuntu and using firefox browser

when i run "python3 manage.py runserver"

my homepage loads at 127.0.0.1:8000 but when I add /admin in the browser

127.0.0.1:8000/admin

it still stays at the homepage not the admin page

i notice on the running server i get

December 09, 2019 - 00:40:46 Django version 1.11.11, using settings 'mysite.settings' Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Quit the server with CONTROL-C. " "and when i add /admin the following line appears"

[09/Dec/2019 00:46:05] "GET /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 3

but still i dont see the admin page

please ask and i can share

"settings.py" etc and any other information update

my "main" folder has a urls.py file which looks like:

from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views

app_name = "main"

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^', views.homepage, name="homepage"),
]

my "mysite/mysite" folder has a urls.py file that looks like:

 from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.contrib import admin


urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^', include('main.urls')),
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

Thanks to a comment from @chrisbyte if i comment out

#url(r'^', include('main.urls'))

Line then my admin page shows up, But then I dont get anything I have done on my "main" page.

Hello! Could you share your main urls.py please? Just to verify it is setup correctly. It needs to import from django.contrib import admin and have something like url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls), in your urls patterns, BEFORE you include your public urls, which looks like url(r'^', include('your.public.urls')), — chrisbyte
this is the urls.py in my "main"folder from django.conf.urls import url from . import views app_name = "main" urlpatterns = [ url(r'^', views.homepage, name="homepage"), ] — Brendan
My "mysite" app has urls.py like this from django.conf.urls import url, include from django.contrib import admin urlpatterns = [ url(r'^', include('main.urls')), url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls), ] — Brendan
If you could edit your original question and add the contents of the url files you mentioned, that would be incredibly helpful. Thanks! — chrisbyte
Hi thanks for helping, yes that worked when i commented out all patterns except admin i got the admin page :). but I am not sure what this means?. I am following "Django web development" tutorials from sentdex on youtube, maybe i should go back and see if i made a mistake ( i am also using a later version of django than in the tutorials). Thanks again for your help, i have to get some sleep now, but i will check again tommorrow thanks again for your help and hopefully this will be solved soon — Brendan

chrisbyte chrisbyte · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-09T23:08:20

So with formatting, your urls.py looks something like this?

from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.contrib import admin 

urlpatterns = [ 
    url(r'^', include('main.urls')), 
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls), 
]

What happens if you put the admin url route before the main.urls route, like this?

urlpatterns = [ 
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls), 
    url(r'^', include('main.urls')), 
]

I believe the admin portion should come first so it is not overwritten by main.urls

django admin page wont show

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