Project name inserted automatically in url when using django template url tag

Question

I am applying the 'url' template tag to all links in my current Django project.

I have my urls named like so...

url(r'^login/$', 'login', name='site_login'),

This allows me to access /login at my site's root. I have my template tag defined like so...

<a href="{% url site_login %}">

It works fine, except that Django automatically resolves that url as /myprojectname/login, not /login. Both urls are accessible. Why? Is there an option to remove the projectname? This occurs for all url tags, not just this one.

Answer 1

Apparently, it was a problem with my apache2 configuration. I basically copied the directives from the django website, with one small modification:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modpython/#basic-configuration

I changed to so my Django project would be served at my site's root directory.

I had to remove '/mysite' from the django.root option. My final output looks like this, with no value after django.root:

<Location "/"> 
    SetHandler python-program 
    PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython 
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings 
    PythonOption django.root 
    PythonDebug On 
</Location> 

For the record, I am running:

Django 1.0 Apache 2.2 mod_python 3.3.1 (i think... :)) Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.4

Copied from here: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/msg/5e79ed1e694a3776