Error on Django URL : URLconf defined in website.urls, Django tried these URL patterns – Nginx

I am running a django project on a ubuntu digital ocean droplet with nginx/gunicorn on my own domain. I am using a virtual environment with Django version 3.1.6 and Python 3.8.5

I am trying to follow Corey Shafers Django tutorial to create a blog app and while I can reach the generic django success page on example.com I ran into the following from example.com/blog :

Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL: example.com/blog
Using the URLconf defined in website.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:

admin/
The current path, blog, didn’t match any of these.

My current ~/projectdir/website/urls.py (see edit at bottom):

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
        path('admin/',admin.site.urls),
        path('', include('blog.urls')),
]

My ~/projectdir/blog/urls.py:

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.home, name='blog-home'),
    path('about/', views.about, name='blog-about'),
]

My ~/projectdir/blog/views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse


def home(request):
    return HttpResponse('<h1>Blog Home</h1>')

As far as I can tell everything looks ok syntax-wise but I can’t figure out why the URLconf is not seeing the blog path. I have tried reloading nginx and that didn’t help.

EDIT

I have edited /projectdir/website/urls.py to look like this:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
        path('admin/',admin.site.urls),
        path('blog', include('blog.urls')),
]

I am still getting the same 404 reponse with "The current path, blog, didn’t match any of these."