~/proj/djproject$ python manage.py runserver Validating models... 0 errors found. Django version 0.96-pre, using settings 'djproject.settings' Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Quit the server with CONTROL-C. [11/Aug/2006 21:10:27] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 1918 on http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Page not found (404) Request Method: GET Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Using the URLconf defined in djproject.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order: 1. ^admin/ The current URL, /, didn't match any of these. You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page. my urls.py file: from django.conf.urls.defaults import * urlpatterns = patterns('', # Example: # (r'^djproject/', include('djproject.apps.foo.urls.foo')), # Uncomment this for admin: (r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')), )