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I am getting this method not allowed(post), like I can't post my forms.what could I be doing wrong.I am new to django. Could my url.py be wrong or my form-id is incorrect that doesn't enable the posting of data.I have the forms.py here, not sure if that could be a problem to my problem

views.py

class ContactUsView(ContactFormView):
 """ Contact Us Form View """
 form_class = ContactUsForm

 def get_success_url(self):
 return reverse('messaging:contact_form_sent')


def clear_notification(request):
 """ Clears the notification for a given user"""

 Notifications.objects.filter(user=request.user).delete()
 return redirect(reverse('accounts:dashboard', args=(request.user,)))

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
 path(
 'contact/',
 views.ContactUsView.as_view(),
 name='contact_form'),
 path(
 r'contact/sent/',
 TemplateView.as_view(
 template_name='contact_form/contact_form_sent.html'),
 name='contact_form_sent'),
 path(r'clear/', views.clear_notification, name='clear_notification'),
]

contact_form.html

 <div class="row">
 <form id='ContactUsForm' method='post' action=% url 'messaging:contact_form_sent' %><br>
 % csrf_token %
 <div class="col-md-6">
 <div class="form-group">
 % csrf_token %
 <input type="text" class="form-control input-upper" id="fullname" placeholder="John Doe" name="fullname">
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="col-md-6">
 <div class="form-group">
 % csrf_token %
 <input type="email" class="form-control input-upper" id="email" placeholder="Email" name="email">
 </div>
 </div>
 </div><br><br>
 <div class="row">
 <div class="col-md-6">
 <div class="form-group">
 % csrf_token %
 <input type="text" class="form-control input-upper" id="subject" placeholder="Subject" name="subject">
 </div>
 </div>
 </div><br>
 <div class="row">
 <div class="col-md-10">
 <div class="form-group">
 % csrf_token %
 <textarea class="form-control input-upper" id="message" placeholder="Message" name="message"></textarea>
 </div>
 % csrf_token %
 <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-send-contact" value="SUBMIT">SEND</button>
 </div>
 </div><br><br>
 </form>
 </div>
 </div>
</div>
% endblock %

base-view

"""

"""

from django.views.generic.edit import FormView

from .forms import ContactForm

try:
 from django.urls import reverse
except ImportError: # pragma: no cover
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse # pragma: no cover


class ContactFormView(FormView):
 form_class = ContactForm
 recipient_list = None
 template_name = 'contact_form/contact_form.html'

 def form_valid(self, form):
 form.save()
 return super(ContactFormView, self).form_valid(form)

 def get_form_kwargs(self):
 # ContactForm instances require instantiation with an
 # HttpRequest.
 kwargs = super(ContactFormView, self).get_form_kwargs()
 kwargs.update('request': self.request)

 # We may also have been given a recipient list when
 # instantiated.
 if self.recipient_list is not None:
 kwargs.update('recipient_list': self.recipient_list)
 return kwargs

 def get_success_url(self):

 return reverse('contact_form_sent')

By default TemplateView not allowing POST, what you need to do is just overwrite the post method.

Exemple :

class ContactUsView(TemplateView):
 template_name = 'contact_form/contact_form_sent.html'

 def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
 context = self.get_context_data()
 if context["form"].is_valid():
 print 'POST IS HERE'
 return super(TemplateView, self).render_to_response(context)

 def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
 context = super(ContactUsView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
 form = ContactUsEmailForm(self.request.POST or None) 
 context["form"] = form
 return context

Your form is posting directly to the confirmation page, contact_form_sent, which is not expecting a post. By doing this it's bypassing the view that is actually processing the post, ContactUsView.

Your form action should be to messaging:contact_form.