Django Tips #7 How to Get the Current URL Within a Django Template

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Django Tips #7 How to Get the Current URL Within a Django Template

Jul 20, 2016
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Make sure you have django.template.context_processors.request listed in your context_processors.

As of Django 1.9 version, it already comes configurated. The default TEMPLATES configuration looks like that:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

To get the current path:

  {{ request.path }}

Current path with querystring:

  {{ request.get_full_path }}

Domain, path and querystring:

  {{ request.build_absolute_uri }}

Outputs

Considering we are acessing the following URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/home/?q=test

Method	Output
`request.path`	`/home/`
`request.get_full_path`	`/home/?q=test`
`request.build_absolute_uri`	`http://127.0.0.1:8000/home/?q=test`

Troubleshooting

Django 1.7 or below

If you are using an older version of Django (<= 1.7) where the TEMPLATES configuration is not available, you can include the context processor like this:

settings.py

from django.conf.global_settings import TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS as TCP

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = TCP + (
    'django.core.context_processors.request',
)