Redirecting the Homepage

Redirecting the Homepage

Right now the homepage (/) shows a basic welcome page. Let us make it redirect to the articles list — or render the article list directly.

Option 1: Redirect

# djangoblog/views.py
from django.shortcuts import redirect

def homepage(request):
    return redirect('articles:list')

When users visit /, they are immediately sent to /articles/.

Option 2: Render Articles at Root

# djangoblog/urls.py
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', include('articles.urls')),  # Articles at root
    path('accounts/', include('accounts.urls')),
]

This serves the articles list at / instead of /articles/. Article detail pages would then be at /my-article-slug/.

Option 3: RedirectView

from django.views.generic import RedirectView

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', RedirectView.as_view(url='/articles/')),
    path('articles/', include('articles.urls')),
    path('accounts/', include('accounts.urls')),
]

Key Takeaways

• redirect('name') sends users to a named URL
• Use include() at the root path to serve articles directly at /
• RedirectView is a class-based alternative for simple redirects
• Choose the approach that best fits your URL structure