Admin Tools config throws 404: page not found - django-admin-tools

Question

I try to setup the basic configuration of admin tools and fail with the url dispatcher recognizing the include of admin_tools.urls:
#urls.py
...
import admin_tools.urls
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admintools/', include(admin_tools.urls)),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
#settings.py
import django.conf.global_settings as DEFAULT_SETTINGS
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = DEFAULT_SETTINGS.TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS + (
"django.core.context_processors.request",
)
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
...
'admin_tools',
'admin_tools.menu',
'admin_tools.dashboard',
'django.contrib.admin',
'repmgr',)
I did run syncdb. I am sure that the regexp matches /admintools/, because it works when I include another app.
The detailed error response is:
Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admintools/
Using the URLconf defined in urlconf, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
^__debug__/m/(.*)$
^__debug__/sql_select/$ [name='sql_select']
^__debug__/sql_explain/$ [name='sql_explain']
^__debug__/sql_profile/$ [name='sql_profile']
^__debug__/template_source/$ [name='template_source']
^admin/doc/
^admintools/ ^menu/
^admintools/ ^dashboard/
^sthrep/
The current URL, admintools/, didn't match any of these.

Answer 1

The error message is perfectly correct :
Django tells that there is no URL pattern matching ^admintools/^. That is true. This is because django-admin-tools does not create a different admin site, but rather extends the original admin site.
The ^admintools/ pattern is only created for its sub-patterns, that provide access to pages needed by admin-tools to work well (new pages added to the original admin, for example).
By the way, in django-admin-tools documentation, at the end of the setup instructions, they say :
Congrats! At this point you should have a working installation of
django-admin-tools. Now you can just login to your admin site and see
what changed.
I guess that by your admin site they mean the standard admin site.
So I think that the good way to access your admin interface and menus and dashboards is using the standard admin.