I am following (http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter03/) Djangobook 2, chapter 3, subchapter 'Your First Django-Powered Page: Hello World'.
I get an ImportError, 'no module named views' (check url at the end of the post).
I am using Python 2.7.2
I will go through everything I did step by step:
$ pwd /home/name/Desktop/sc
$ django-admin.py startproject mysite2
$ cd mysite2
$ pwd /home/name/Desktop/sc/mysite2
$ ls -R
.:
manage.py mysite2 views.py~
./mysite2:
__init__.py settings.py urls.py urls.pyc wsgi.pyc
__init__.pyc settings.pyc urls.py~ wsgi.py
Then I created views.py in ~Desktop/sc/mysite2.
from django.http import HttpResponse
def hello(request):
return HttpResponse("Hello world")
Then I went to ~Desktop/sc/mysite2/mysite2.
I changed my urls.py to contain the following:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from mysite2.views import hello
urlpatterns = patterns('',
('^hello/$', hello),
)
Then I ran python manage.py runserver in ´/home/name/Desktop/sc/mysite2.
When I pastehttp://127.0.0.1:8000/` in my browser I get the following screen:
http://tinypic.com/r/23th72v/5
Update: fully working with Django 1.4.0-final
Overall, I'd recommend to re-do the startproject step and start over from scratch; I will summarize the steps you need to take:
1) Create a new Django project
$ django-admin.py startproject helloWorldProject
This creates a new folder helloWorldProject containing some stub files.
2) Create a new file views.py _INSIDE_ your helloWorldProject/helloWorldProject folder. It should contain the following code:
from django.http import HttpResponse
def hello(request):
return HttpResponse("Hello world")
3) Update the urls.py file (within the same folder as views.py):
from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^$', 'helloWorldProject.views.hello', name='hello'),
)
4) Run your server using the known command:
$ python manage.py runserver
This should give you some output similar to this
Validating models...
0 errors found
Django version 1.4, using settings 'helloWorldProject.settings'
Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
5) Check if your "Hello World" view works -- point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/
NOTE: If you define an URL pattern like ('^hello/$', 'helloWorldProject.views.hello', name='hello'),, you have to point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/hello/ as otherwise you will get an HTTP 404 error message...
Hope that helps :)
Django book describes old django version. Quote from Chapter 2
Official releases have a version number, such as 1.0.3 or 1.1, and the
latest one is always available at
http://www.djangoproject.com/download/.
In the newest 1.4 project layout was updated, so be careful to use examples from that book. I advise you to try tutorial from official documentation at first.
I assume you should create views.py in ~Desktop/sc/mysite2/mysite2 near urls.py
