21.7 URL Cleanup

Before we finish, we should take a quick look at our URL patterns. You’ll discover that we’re not fully adhering to a clean URL path policy. We have URLs with the path prefix /user/password/ but no view for the actual path. We can use a simple GCBV to fix that, as shown in Example 21.99.

Example 21.99: Project Code

user/urls.py in 541375e172

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14   password_urls = [ 15       url(r'^$', 16           RedirectView.as_view( 17               pattern_name='dj-auth:pw_reset_start', 18               permanent=False)),  .       ... 64   ]

Similarly, our activation webpage uses the /activate/ URL path prefix, but we don’t have an actual page for /activate/ or even for /activate/<uidb64>/. To catch all of ...

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