The "poll" app in the tutorial "getting started": Page not found (404)

Using Django Getting Started
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How could I go wrong so soon. On the first tutorial !

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Hey there, if you’re seeking for help you need to provide the details of your current project in order for others to be able to help you. In this type of case, generally we need to see:

  • urls.py: the one inside your polls app/folder;
  • views.py: the one inside your polls app/folder;
  • urls.py: the “root” one, located in the same directory of the wsgi.py and settings.py files.
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In addition to the items above, you also need to specify what step you are on (which section of which page) and the URL that you are trying to access.

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from django.http import HttpResponse


def index(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello, world. You're at the polls index.")

← anything\polls\urls.py → 

from django.urls import path

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path("", views.index, name="index"),
]

← anything\mysite\urls.py → 

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
    path("polls/", include("polls.urls")),
    path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
]

Page not found (404)

Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://localhost:8000/

Using the URLconf defined in mysite.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:

  1. polls/
  2. admin/

The empty path didn’t match any of these.

You’re seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page

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This exact situation was discussed at Page not found (404) Include not working. In particular, see Page not found (404) Include not working - #7 by KenWhitesell

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(I’ve taken the liberty of fixing your original post for this.)

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Writing your first Django app, part 1

(venv) PS C:\Users\joe\anything> python manage.py runserver

Never mind it works if I:
http://localhost:8000/polls/