Django URL Conf Returns Incorrect "Current URL"

Question

I have a django app that is mostly done, and the URLs work perfectly when I run it with the manage.py runserver command. However, I've recently tried to get it running via lighttpd, and many links have stopped working.

For example: http://mysite.com/races/32 should work, but instead throws this error message.

Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://mysite.com/races/32
Using the URLconf defined in racetrack.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
^admin/
^create/$
^races/$
^races/(?P<race_id>\d+)/$
^races/(?P<race_id>\d+)/manage/$
^races/(?P<text>\w+)/$
^user/(?P<kol_id>\d+)/$
^$
^login/$
^logout/$
The current URL, 32, didn't match any of these.

The request URL is accurate, but the last line (which displays the current URL) is giving 32 instead of races/32 as expected.

Here is my urlconf:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('racetrack.races.views',
    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    (r'^create/$', 'create'),
    (r'^races/$', 'index'),
    (r'^races/(?P<race_id>\d+)/$', 'detail'),
    (r'^races/(?P<race_id>\d+)/manage/$', 'manage'),
    (r'^races/(?P<text>\w+)/$', 'index'),
    (r'^user/(?P<kol_id>\d+)/$', 'user'),
    # temporary for index page replace with welcome page
    (r'^$', 'index'),
)

urlpatterns += patterns('django.contrib.auth.views',
    (r'^login/$', 'login', {'template_name': 'races/login.html'}),
    (r'^logout/$', 'logout', {'next_page': '/'}),
)

Thank you.

Answer 1

I would think that the problem lies in the configuration of lighttpd.

Django is capable of "translating" "request urls" to "current urls" for the url checking, for example via the django.root configuration for mod_python.