Can't be redirected after form action in Django

Question

I created a form for creating a new item in Django. The app should be redirected to item_new but it's not working. This below error occurs.

Page not found http://127.0.0.1.8000/item/new

show.html

    <form
      action="{% url 'item_new' %}"
      method="POST"
      enctype="multipart/form-data"
    >
      {% csrf_token %}
      <div class="formItem">
        <label>Name</label>
        <input type="name" name="name" />
      </div>
      <div class="formBtn">
        <input type="submit" class="btn btnPrimary" value="Submit" />
      </div>
    </form>

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    path('item/<slug:slug>/', views.item_detail, name='item_detail'),
    path('item/new/', views.item_new, name='item_new'),
]

views.py

def item_detail(request, slug):
    item = get_object_or_404(Item, slug=slug)
    return render(request, 'item/show.html', {'item': item})

def item_new(request):
    return redirect('home')

Answer 1

In your urls.py file, change the order of lines. Like this:

urlpatterns = [
    path('item/new/', views.item_new, name='item_new'),
    path('item/<slug:slug>/', views.item_detail, name='item_detail'),
]

The order of urls, does matter. In your current situation, requests made to http://127.0.0.1.8000/item/new will be sent to item_detail view function instead of item_new .