Updating the URLconf File to Allow Admin Access

The Django admin interface must be added to the URLconf file so that you can access it from a web browser. Django automatically puts the following line in the urls.py file. However, it is initially commented out and therefore is inactive:

(r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls'))

(r'^WebMaster/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls'))

Try It Yourself: Add Admin Access to the URLconf File In this section, you enable access to the admin interface for a web browser by adding the default entry for the admin application to the urls.py file. 1. From a console prompt, change to the root directory of the iFriends project. 2. Open the iFriends\urls.py file in an editor. 3. Find the urlpatterns setting, and uncomment the (r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')), pattern, as shown in the following snippet: urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^People/$', 'iFriends.People.views.index') # Uncomment this for admin: (r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')), ) 4. Save the file. 5. Enter the following command to start the development server: python manage.py runserver 6. Access the http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin URL. You should see a web page similar to the one shown in Figure 3.1. Figure 3.1. Login page for Django's admin interface. [View full size image] 7. Log in to the admin site using the superuser name and password that you set up in Hour 2. You should see a web page similar to the one shown in Figure 3.2. Figure 3.2. Main page for Django's admin interface. [View full size image] From the main page in Django's admin interface, you can add users, groups, and sites and manage any objects that have had the admin interface activated.