title: My first Django App - don't know how to create a homepage
body: <p>I have been learning python for some time now and I want to make one of my small programs available to more people.
  I am learning how to make URLs for my project now and I cannot create a URL for a homepage. As I found in one of the courses for older django version, you should create a function in your urls.py file that looks like this:</p>
  <pre><code>from django.http import HttpResponse
  
  def home(request):
      return HttpResponse('this is the test homepage')
  </code></pre>
  <p>and pair it with some lines in views.py:</p>
  <pre><code>path('^$', views.home)
  </code></pre>
  <p>This doesn't work for me. I also tried to create a path like this:</p>
  <pre><code> path('/', views.home)
  </code></pre>
  <p>Please, help or direct me to up to date guides for django 3.1.1.</p>
  <p>EDIT in response to @pygeek's request:</p>
  <p>the content of my urls.py:</p>
  <pre><code>from django.contrib import admin
  from django.urls import path
  from . import views
  
  urlpatterns = [
      path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
      path('about/', views.about),
      path('/', views.home)
  ]
  </code></pre>
  <p>the contents of my apps array in settings.py:</p>
  <pre><code>INSTALLED_APPS = [
      'django.contrib.admin',
      'django.contrib.auth',
      'django.contrib.contenttypes',
      'django.contrib.sessions',
      'django.contrib.messages',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles',
  ]
  </code></pre>
  <p>And the project tree:</p>
  <pre><code>.
  └── RemoveBigFile
      ├── RBF1module
      │   ├── __init__.py
      │   ├── admin.py
      │   ├── apps.py
      │   ├── migrations
      │   │   └── __init__.py
      │   ├── models.py
      │   ├── tests.py
      │   └── views.py
      ├── RemoveBigFile
      │   ├── __init__.py
      │   ├── __pycache__
      │   │   ├── __init__.cpython-38.pyc
      │   │   ├── settings.cpython-38.pyc
      │   │   ├── urls.cpython-38.pyc
      │   │   ├── views.cpython-38.pyc
      │   │   └── wsgi.cpython-38.pyc
      │   ├── asgi.py
      │   ├── settings.py
      │   ├── urls.py
      │   ├── views.py
      │   └── wsgi.py
      ├── RemoveBigFile.sublime-project
      ├── RemoveBigFile.sublime-workspace
      ├── db.sqlite3
      └── manage.py
  </code></pre>