Adding username in url after base url in django

Question

I am working on django project(which is at verge of completion) and I have structure like something below: project name: Mysite App name: myapp

project urls : 127.0.0.1/myapp/blog etc

my requirement is to exclude my app from website (through out) and adding usernames in profile page like:

127.0.0.1/blog
127.0.0.1/products
127.0.0.1/search

and for profile page: 127.0.0.1/simer123/myprofile

I have took from various SO questions and able to exclude the "myapp" part from my urls. and Also able to include "username" in url for specific page. SO question1 SO question2 these questions really helped and I found a way out to include user name in my url.

But now again I am stuck because throughout the project I have used things like:

 return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse_lazy('myapp:myprofile'))

And similarly in template part like:

<a href="{% url 'myapp:myprofile' %}">

How can I manage to convert them?

Can Anyone explain this with some example.

Thanks

Update: urls.py file in mysite folder looks like below:

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^autocomplete/', include('autocomplete_light.urls')),
    url(r'^$', 'myapp.views.index'),
    url(r'^', include('myapp.urls', namespace="myapp")),
    url(r'^myapp/', include('myapp.urls', namespace="myapp")),
    url(r'^admin/login', adminLogin),
    #url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', views.serve),
    url(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {
        'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT,
    }),
    url(r'^(?P<username>\w+)/', include('myapp.urls', namespace="myapp")),
    url(r'^(?P<username>\w+)/myapp/', include('myapp.urls', namespace="myapp")),
]

urls.py in myapp folder includes urls like below:

urlpatterns = [
    # ex: /myapp/
    url(r'^autocomplete/', include('autocomplete_light.urls')),
    url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),
    url(r'^about/$', views.about, name='user_about'),
    url(r'^login/$', views.login, name='login'),
    url(r'^newaccount/(?P<uid>.*)/$', views.newaccount, name='newaccount'),
    url(r'^logout/$', views.logout, name='logout'),
    url(r'^myprofile/$', views.profile, name='profile'),
]

can you post your urls.py

levi
– levi

2016-08-11 06:08:54 +00:00
Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 6:08 — levi
– levi, Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 6:08
@levi I have updated my question.

Always_a_learner
– Always_a_learner

2016-08-11 06:32:00 +00:00
Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 6:32 — Always_a_learner
– Always_a_learner, Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 6:32
I updated my answer.

levi
– levi

2016-08-11 06:32:58 +00:00
Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 6:32 — levi
– levi, Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 6:32

Sayse · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-11 06:15:55Z

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Your base url doesn't need to mention myapp at all, just set your url that includes myapp to r'^'. You can still namespace the urls and everything the same as before.

answered Aug 11, 2016 at 6:15

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levi · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-11 06:48:48Z

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You can pass a kwargs dict to your reverse and reverse_lazy function in order to mapping it with your url pattern.

reverse_lazy('myapp:profile', kwargs={'username': username})

And in your template, just pass it as positional argument

<a href="{% url 'myapp:profile' username %}">

edited Aug 11, 2016 at 6:48

answered Aug 11, 2016 at 6:10

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Always_a_learner Over a year ago

Thanks @levi. Let me implement your solution to check if it works otherwise I will post my urls.py in question.

Always_a_learner Over a year ago

this gave me an error:Reverse for 'myprfile' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{'username': 'simer'}' not found. 0 pattern(s) tried: []

Always_a_learner Over a year ago

I have this url included in my myapp urls.py : url(r'^myprofile/$', views.myprofile, name='myprofile'), and I have def in views,py as def myprofile(request, username). I got error as : Reverse for 'myprofile' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{'username': 'simer'}' not found. 0 pattern(s) tried: []

levi Over a year ago

@Simer Fixed, you need to change myprofile for profile, cuz your url pattern anme is profile not myprofile. So, this is the correct pattern myapp:profile

Always_a_learner Over a year ago

I have profile and myprofile both but none of them match. Please see my updated question. Thanks for your help @levi

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