I can't update Django's RedirectView. It keeps referring to the old URL with a status of 301 Moved Permenantly

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Sorry if this question was supposed to be in Server Vault. I couldn't really tell whether it's a programming error or a server configuration error. I recently pushed my git commits to the live server and I noticed something very frustrating. No matter how I edit the `urls.py`, I can't seem to update `RedirectView`! Here is my root `mysite/urls.py` ``` urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'^$', RedirectView.as_view(url=reverse_lazy('order_list')), name='home'), url(r'^doors/', include('doors.urls')), url(r'^accounts/', include('registration.urls')), url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), url(r'^{}/'.format(settings.DAJAXICE_MEDIA_PREFIX), include('dajaxice.urls')), ) ``` The named URL `order_list` comes from one of my app's `urls.py` ``` urlpatterns = patterns('doors.views', url(r'^order/$', OrderListView.as_view(), name='order_list'), # And more URL patterns... ) ``` So basically I simply changed `r'^orders/$'` to `r'^order/$'` in the last commit. But whenever I do `{% url home %}`, I…

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It turned out that the `301` redirections are cached on the browser!

So I cleared my browser's cache and everything worked. It was hard knowing where to look for the error when I didn't really understand the difference between `301` and `302` that well. I also realized that since my `RedirectView` is basically a placeholder until I write a real home template. I should be using `permanent=False` to always create a `302`. Take a look at the docs for details.

I can't update Django's RedirectView. It keeps referring to the old URL with a status of 301 Moved Permenantly

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