django trailing slash not being added

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so i have a django app, and i visit this url: ``` http://127.0.0.1:8000/stories ``` and i get this: ``` Request Method: GET Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/stories "stories" does not exist ``` and then i check out the urls.py and i see: ``` #stories url(r'^stories/$', StoryShowView.as_view( context_object_name='story_list', template_name='accounts/viewAndAddStory.html') ), ``` and finally, i look at my settins.py and i see: ``` #appends a slash if nothing is found without a slash. APPEND_SLASH = True ``` shouldn't, with the APPEND_SLASH set as above, the url without the slash be 301 redirected to the url with the slash, and then the webpage load? if i do manually add the slash to the url, then the page loads as expected and everybody has some tea and knocks off early. UPDATE: i also have this entry in my settings.py: ``` MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddlew…

Accepted Answer

The `"does not exist"` should be something like `"Page not found"`. Thus, I suspect you're not facing a normal 404 but a 404 raised by some mis-matched view in mis-configured urlconf. For example, I found that `django.views.static.serve` would raise `Http404('some_path does not exist')`, can you check `urls.py` to ensure views such as `static.serve` does not match path such as `/stories`?

If there is a matching, Django will not append suffix slash and redirect automatically.

You could check by

```
from django.core.urlresolvers import resolve
resolve('/stories')
```

to know which view actually gets matched.

django trailing slash not being added

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