Attempt at append_slash, and backtrack.

settings.py

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["*", "expo.survex.com", ".survex.com", "localhost", "127.0.0.1"
 
 ADMINS = (
     ('Wookey', 'wookey@wookware.org'),
+    ('Philip', 'philip.sargent@klebos.eu'),
 )
 MANAGERS = ADMINS
 
@@ -78,15 +79,12 @@ FIX_PERMISSIONS = []
 # SURVEX_TOPNAME = "1623-and-1626-no-schoenberg-hs"
 SURVEX_TOPNAME = "troggle_import_root" # same, but without all the 'essentials' gubbins
 
-APPEND_SLASH = (
-    False  # never relevant because we have urls that match unknown files and produce an 'edit this page' response
-)
-SMART_APPEND_SLASH = True  # not eorking as middleware different after Dj2.0
-
-ROOT_URLCONF = "troggle.urls"
+ROOT_URLCONF = "troggle.urls"  # i.e. troggle/urls.py
 LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = "/statistics"   # see troggle/core/views/auth.py
 LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = "/controlpanel"  # see troggle/core/views/auth.py
+
 PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT = 3*60*60      # password reset sends an email. The response is valid for 3 hours
+#ACCOUNT_ACTIVATION_DAYS = 3 # this is only if we are using django-registration package
 
 SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF = True
 SECURE_BROWSER_XSS_FILTER = True
@@ -114,6 +112,8 @@ FORM_RENDERER = "django.forms.renderers.TemplatesSetting"  # Required to customi
 # Note that this is a radically different onion architecture from earlier versions though it looks the same,
 # see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/middleware/#upgrading-pre-django-1-10-style-middleware
 # Seriously, read this: https://www.webforefront.com/django/middlewaredjango.html which is MUCH BETTER than the docs
+
+# We are NOT using the home-built SmartAppendSlashMiddleware
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     #'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware', # SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT and SECURE_SSL_HOST # we don't use this
     "django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware",  # not needed when expofiles and photos served by apache
@@ -125,15 +125,14 @@ MIDDLEWARE = [
     "django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware",  # Cookie-based and session-based message support. Needed by admin system
     "django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware",  # clickjacking protection via the X-Frame-Options header
     #'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware', # SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS, SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF, SECURE_BROWSER_XSS_FILTER, SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY, and SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT
-    #'troggle.core.middleware.SmartAppendSlashMiddleware' # needs adapting after Dj2.0
+    #"troggle.core.middleware.TroggleAppendSlashMiddleware", # modified Feb.2025
 ]
 
 WSGI_APPLICATION = "troggle.wsgi.application"  # change to asgi as soon as we upgrade to Django 3.0
-
-ACCOUNT_ACTIVATION_DAYS = 3
-
-# AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE = 'core.person' # used by removed profiles app ?
-
+# Append slash can't work if we have a universal catchall URL rule, and we do because all the handbook files
+# do not have simple prefix. This is why we used to have an /expoweb/ prefix for everything in the website.
+# APPEND_SLASH = True # using django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware. Pointless, never happens if there is a catchall.
+# TROGGLE_APPEND_SLASH = True # this is our middleware: see the code in troggle/core/middleware.py for why we do NOT use it.
 QM_PATTERN = r"\[\[\s*[Qq][Mm]:([ABC]?)(\d{4})-(\d*)-(\d*)\]\]"
 
 # Re-enable TinyMCE when Dj upgraded to v3. Also templates/editexpopage.html
@@ -148,5 +147,4 @@ TEST_RUNNER = "django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner"
 
 print("+  finished importing troggle/settings.py, re-importing localsettings again")
 from localsettings import *
-
 # localsettings needs to take precedence. Call it to override any existing vars.