When starting a new Django project, I always like to get a first, simple view working. It’s kind of a “Hello World” step I like to take. If you have created and configured a templates folder, and created your first template within it, all that’s left to do is to add two lines to the project’s urls.py: from django.contrib import admin from django.urls import path from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView # here urlpatterns = [ path('admin/', admin.