diff --git a/evennia/web/urls.py b/evennia/web/urls.py
index 6d9e28f6df..22db55cde6 100644
--- a/evennia/web/urls.py
+++ b/evennia/web/urls.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # http://diveintopython.org/regular_expressions/street_addresses.html#re.matching.2.3
 #
 
-from django.conf.urls import url, include
+from django.urls import path, include
 from django.views.generic import RedirectView
 
 # Setup the root url tree from /
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@ from django.views.generic import RedirectView
 urlpatterns = [
     # Front page (note that we shouldn't specify namespace here since we will
     # not be able to load django-auth/admin stuff (will probably work in Django>1.9)
-    url(r"^", include("evennia.web.website.urls")),  # , namespace='website', app_name='website')),
+    path("", include("evennia.web.website.urls")),
     # webclient
-    url(r"^webclient/", include("evennia.web.webclient.urls", namespace="webclient")),
+    path("webclient/", include("evennia.web.webclient.urls")),
     # favicon
-    url(r"^favicon\.ico$", RedirectView.as_view(url="/media/images/favicon.ico", permanent=False)),
+    path("favicon.ico", RedirectView.as_view(
+        url="/media/images/favicon.ico", permanent=False))
 ]
diff --git a/evennia/web/webclient/urls.py b/evennia/web/webclient/urls.py
index cfb57ad262..4b9d19d631 100644
--- a/evennia/web/webclient/urls.py
+++ b/evennia/web/webclient/urls.py
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 This structures the (simple) structure of the
 webpage 'application'.
 """
-from django.conf.urls import *
+from django.urls import path
 from evennia.web.webclient import views as webclient_views
 
 app_name = "webclient"
-urlpatterns = [url(r"^$", webclient_views.webclient, name="index")]
+
+urlpatterns = [path("", webclient_views.webclient, name="index")]