Your first Django-powered page: Hello World
As our first goal, let's create a web page that outputs that famous example message: Hello World. If you were publishing a simple Hello World web page without a web framework, you'd simply type Hello world into a text file, call it hello.html, and upload it to a directory on a web server somewhere. Notice in that process you've specified two key pieces of information about that web page: its contents (the string Hello world) and its URL (for example, http://www.example.com/hello.html). With Django, you specify those same two things, but in a different way. The contents of the page are produced by a view function, and the URL is specified in a URLconf. First, let's write our Hello World view function.
Your first view
Within the mysite directory that we created in the last chapter, create an empty file called views.py. This Python module will contain our views for this chapter. Our Hello World view is simple. Here's the entire function, plus import...
