How to get django_hitcount app working with Mezzanine blog

Question

Been trying for several hours now.

I set up according to instructions but I can't get it to count hits on a blog post.

/blog/blog_post_detail.html

{% load .. .. .. hitcount_tags %}

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{% block blog_post_detail_content %}

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function()  {
       {% get_hit_count_javascript for blog_post %} 
    });
</script>

{% get_hit_count for blog_post %}
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{% endblock %}

And in my urls.py I added:

url(r'^blog/ajax/hit/$', update_hit_count_ajax, name='hitcount_update_ajax'),

Looking at page source in browser the javascript does appear to run.

    $(document).ready(function()  {
       var csrf = $('input[name=csrfmiddlewaretoken]').val();
$.post( '/blog/ajax/hit/',
{ csrfmiddlewaretoken: csrf, hitcount_pk : '1' },
function(data, status) {
    if (data.status == 'error') {
        // do something for error?
    }
    },
'json'); 
    });

But it's not counting. So I'm not quite sure why it doesn't count a page hit.

Answer 1

Figured it out. In Mezzanine you have to put custom url patterns above the

("^", include("mezzanine.urls")),

pattern otherwise they will be ignored.