Django URL Redirect

Question

How can I redirect traffic that doesn t match any of my other URLs back to the home page   urls py   urlpatterns   patterns         url r       macmonster views home         url r  macmon home     macmonster views home        url r  macmon output      macmonster views output        url r  macmon about      macmonster views about        url r          macmonster views home        As it stands  the last entry sends all  other  traffic to the home page but I want to redirect via either an HTTP 301 or 302

User · Accepted Answer

You can try the Class Based View called RedirectView

from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$', 'macmonster.views.home'),
    #url(r'^macmon_home$', 'macmonster.views.home'),
    url(r'^macmon_output/$', 'macmonster.views.output'),
    url(r'^macmon_about/$', 'macmonster.views.about'),
    url(r'^.*$', RedirectView.as_view(url='<url_to_home_view>', permanent=False), name='index')
)

Notice how as url in the <url_to_home_view> you need to actually specify the url.

permanent=False will return HTTP 302, while permanent=True will return HTTP 301.

Alternatively you can use django.shortcuts.redirect

Update for Django 2+ versions

With Django 2+, url() is deprecated and replaced by re_path(). Usage is exactly the same as url() with regular expressions. For replacements without the need of regular expression, use path().

from django.urls import re_path

re_path(r'^.*$', RedirectView.as_view(url='<url_to_home_view>', permanent=False), name='index')

User · Answer

If you are stuck on django 1 2 like I am and RedirectView doesn t exist  another route-centric way to add the redirect mapping is using    r  match rules      django views generic simple redirect to     url     new url         You can also re-route everything on a match  This is useful when changing the folder of an app but wanting to preserve bookmarks    r  match folder   P lt path gt        django views generic simple redirect to     url     new folder   path s         This is preferable to django shortcuts redirect if you are only trying to modify your url routing and do not have access to  htaccess  etc  I m on Appengine and app yaml doesn t allow url redirection at that level like an  htaccess

User · Answer

Another way of doing it is using HttpResponsePermanentRedirect like so   In view py  def url redirect request       return HttpResponsePermanentRedirect   new url      In the url py  url r  old url      website views url redirect   name  url-redirect

User · Answer

The other methods work fine  but you can also use the good old django shortcut redirect   The code below was taken from this answer   In Django 2 x    from django shortcuts import redirect from django urls import path  include  urlpatterns           this example uses named URL  hola-home  from app named hola       for more redirect s usage options  https   docs djangoproject com en 2 1 topics http shortcuts      path     lambda request  redirect  hola    permanent True        path  hola    include  hola urls

User · Answer

In Django 1 8  this is how I did mine   from django views generic base import RedirectView  url r      views comingSoon  name  homepage      whatever urls you might have in here   make sure the  catch-all  url is placed last url r        RedirectView as view pattern name  homepage   permanent False     Instead of using url  you can use the pattern name  which is a bit un-DRY  and will ensure you change your url  you don t have to change the redirect too

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