Django Tutorial Will not work

Using Django Getting Started
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I am following the tutorial, and it is not working no matter what I try. I am at the end of the 1st part of the tutorial, but every time I try running http://127.0.0.1:8000/polls it just does not work and says admin is the only URL that shows. I have tried many fixes from other posts, but it is not working.
mysite/mysite/urls has the code from the tutorial, and i filled out polls/views and polls/urls. I have deleted all my files and restarted the tutorial a few times, but it is not working. Here is the code I have:
polls/views.py:

Create your views here.

from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
return HttpResponse(“Hello, world. You’re at the polls index.”)
polls/urls.py:
from django.urls import path

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
path(“”, views.index, name=“index”),
]
my site urls:
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
path(“polls/”, include(“polls.urls”)),
path(“admin/”, admin.site.urls),
]
path
idk if that works but it shows how the files are placed. I do not know what else to try so any help would be appreciated. Thank you

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Your url path includes the trailing slash for the url polls/, but you aren’t showing it in the url that you’re saying that you are trying. Yes, polls and polls/ are two different urls.

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Sorry that was unclear, I have tried polls/ as well, but neither seem to work, and when on the 404 error page it only says that admin/ is a URL present it does not even show polls

4

What OS are you working on? Have you stopped and restarted the server? What is the ROOT_URLCONF setting in your settings.py file?

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Windows. My root_urlconf just says mysite.urls

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I’ve to say I’m pretty intrigued about that error. I just did that first section of the tutorial on two UNIX machines, and they both worked. Unfortunately, I don’t have a Windows machine at hand right now.

Can you put that code on a public repository and share the link?

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Have you added the polls app in INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py

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Wow this is weird, but I just tried the same thing on my computer without adding the polls app in the INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py and this is working

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Mr. Ken, will not django redirects polls to polls/

I’ve just checked that going to localhost:8000/poll redirects me to localhost:8000/polls/

C:\Users\home\Desktop\mysite>curl localhost:8000/polls -v
*   Trying 127.0.0.1:8000...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8000 (#0)
> GET /polls HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:8000
> User-Agent: curl/8.0.1
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 05:21:35 GMT
< Server: WSGIServer/0.2 CPython/3.10.9
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Location: /polls/
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< Referrer-Policy: same-origin
< Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin
< Connection: close
<
* Closing connection 0
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It’s a configuration setting, it doesn’t “automatically “ do that. So without diving into those settings, I don’t assume it’s going to be there. See Settings | Django documentation | Django

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But in the global settings the APPEND_SLASH is already set to true

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It also requires the common middleware to be installed. Yes, it’s also a default for startproject, but would need to be verified.

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I will do that now let me get one up

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https://github.com/Alex-Aron/djangotutorial
That link has my files

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The mysite.urls file you posted in that repo only has the admin entry. It does not have the polls entry. Your polls.urls file is also empty.

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Oh my god. The issue was that the files I was typing was not properly saving when I hit control S, so when I put it to git it just pushed empty files. All the code I typed was not saved that’s why nothing was working.

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Oh man I just want to thank you for taking the time to post that you have no idea how much you have helped me i have been going crazy for 5 hours not knowing why none of my code was running turns out I wasnt saving anything lmao hadnt even thought of that until I read you comment

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