How do I go straight to template, in Django's urls.py?

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Instead of going to views.py, I want it to go to to a template, robots.txt.

Asked By: TIMEX

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Answer 1

Django 2+

Note: is valid still as of Django 4+

Use the class based generic views but register with the django 2.0+ pattern.

from django.urls import path
from django.views.generic import TemplateView

urlpatterns = [
    path('foo/', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='foo.html'))
]

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/topics/class-based-views/#usage-in-your-urlconf

Django 1.5+

Use the class based generic views.

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^foo/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='foo.html')),
)

#Django <= 1.4
Docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/generic-views/#django-views-generic-simple-direct-to-template

urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.simple',
    (r'^foo/$',             'direct_to_template', {'template': 'foo_index.html'}),
    (r'^foo/(?P<id>d+)/$', 'direct_to_template', {'template': 'foo_detail.html'}),
)

Answered By: Yuji 'Tomita' Tomita

Answer 2

A further update for more recent versions and including mime type from this site:

http://www.techstricks.com/adding-robots-txt-to-your-django-project/

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.views.generic import TemplateView

urlpatterns = [
    #... your project urls
    url(r'^robots.txt$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="robots.txt", content_type="text/plain"), name="robots_file")
]

Answered By: Oliver Burdekin

How do I go straight to template, in Django's urls.py?

Question:

Answers:

Django 2+

Django 1.5+