Django TemplateDoesNotExist

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My local machine is running Python 2 5 and Nginx on Ubuntu 8 10  with Django builded from latest development trunk   For every URL I request  it throws      TemplateDoesNotExist at  appname path appname template name html      Django tried loading these templates  in this order      Using loader django template loaders filesystem function      Using loader django template loaders app directories function        TEMPLATE DIRS         usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname templates      Is it looking for  usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname templates appname template name html in this case  The weird thing is this file does existed on disk  Why can t Django locate it   I run the same application on a remote server with Python 2 6 on Ubuntu 9 04 without such problem  Other settings are the same   Is there anything misconfigured on my local machine  or what could possibly have caused such errors that I should look into   In my settings py  I have specified   SETTINGS PATH   os path normpath os path dirname   file       Find templates in the same folder as settings py  TEMPLATE DIRS         os path join SETTINGS PATH   templates        It should be looking for the following files     usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname templates appname1 template1 html  usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname templates appname1 template2 html  usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname templates appname2 template3 html       All the above files exist on disk   Solved  It works now after I tried   chown -R www-data www-data  usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname     It s strange  I don t need to do this on the remote server to make it work

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I came up with this problem  Here is how I solved this   Look at your settings py  locate to TEMPLATES variable  inside the TEMPLATES  add your templates path inside the DIRS list  For me  first I set my templates path as TEMPLATES PATH   os path join BASE DIR  templates    then add TEMPLATES PATH into DIRS list   DIRS   TEMPLATES PATH    Then restart the server  the TemplateDoesNotExist exception is gone  That s it

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Check that your templates html are in  usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname templates dir

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If you encounter this problem when you add an app from scratch  It is probably because that you miss some settings  Three steps is needed when adding an app   1 Create the directory and template file   Suppose you have a project named mysite and you want to add an app named your app name  Put your template file under mysite your app name templates your app name as following    -- mysite         -- settings py         -- urls py         -- wsgi py  -- your app name         -- admin py         -- apps py         -- models py         -- templates                -- your app name                    -- my index html         -- urls py         -- views py   2 Add your app to INSTALLED APPS   Modify settings py  INSTALLED APPS                  your app name               3 Add your app directory to DIRS in TEMPLATES   Modify settings py   TEMPLATES                                DIRS    os path join BASE DIR   templates                     os path join BASE DIR   your app name    templates    your app name

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I added this  TEMPLATE DIRS         os path join SETTINGS PATH   templates        and it still showed the error  then I realized that in another project the templates was showing without adding that code in settings py file so I checked that project and I realized that I didn t create a virtual environment in this project so I did  virtualenv env    and it worked  don t know why

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Django TemplateDoesNotExist error means simply that the framework can t find the template file   To use the template-loading API  you ll need to tell the framework where you store your templates  The place to do this is in your settings file  settings py  by TEMPLATE DIRS setting  By default it s an empty tuple  so this setting tells Django s template-loading mechanism where to look for templates   Pick a directory where you d like to store your templates and add it to TEMPLATE DIRS e g    TEMPLATE DIRS         home django myproject templates

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In setting  py remove TEMPLATE LOADERS and TEMPLATE DIRS Then ADD  TEMPLATES             BACKEND    django template backends django DjangoTemplates        DIRS      home jay apijay templates          APP DIRS   True       OPTIONS              context processors                  django template context processors debug                django template context processors request                django contrib auth context processors auth                django contrib messages context processors messages

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Make sure you ve added your app to the project-name app-namme settings py INSTALLED APPS     INSTALLED APPS     app-name apps AppNameConfig     And on  project-name app-namme settings py TEMPLATES      DIRS    os path join BASE DIR   templates

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Hi guys I found a new solution  Actually it is defined in another template so instead of defining TEMPLATE DIRS yourself  put your directory path name at their

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Find this tuple       import os     SETTINGS PATH   os path dirname os path dirname   file          TEMPLATES                            BACKEND    django template backends django DjangoTemplates                DIRS                    APP DIRS   True               OPTIONS                      context processors                          django template context processors debug                        django template context processors request                        django contrib auth context processors auth                        django contrib messages context processors messages                                                        You need to add to  DIRS  the string    os path join SETTINGS PATH   templates      So altogether you need   TEMPLATES                    BACKEND    django template backends django DjangoTemplates            DIRS    os path join SETTINGS PATH   templates              APP DIRS   True           OPTIONS                  context processors                      django template context processors debug                    django template context processors request                    django contrib auth context processors auth                    django contrib messages context processors messages

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1 create a folder  templates  in your  app  let say you named such your app   and you can put the html file here  But it s strongly recommended to create a folder with same name  app   in  templates  folder and only then put htmls there  Into the  app templates app  folder   2 now in  app   s urls py put     path     views index  name  index      in case of  use default server index html    3  in   app   s views py put   from django shortcuts import render   def index request   return     render request  app index html         name  index  as you want

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First solution   These settings  TEMPLATE DIRS         os path join SETTINGS PATH   templates        mean that Django will look at the templates from templates  directory under your project   Assuming your Django project is located at  usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname  then with your settings django will look for the templates under  usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname templates   So in that case we want to move our templates to be structured like this    usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname templates template1 html  usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname templates template2 html  usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname templates template3 html   Second solution   If that still doesn t work and assuming that you have the apps configured in settings py like this   INSTALLED APPS          appname1        appname2        appname3       By default Django will load the templates under templates  directory under every installed apps  So with your directory structure  we want to move our templates to be like this    usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname appname1 templates template1 html  usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname appname2 templates template2 html  usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname appname3 templates template3 html   SETTINGS PATH may not be defined by default   In which case  you will want to define it  in settings py    import os SETTINGS PATH   os path dirname os path dirname   file

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I m embarrassed to admit this  but the problem for me was that a template had been specified as     hml instead of     html  Watch out

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It works now after I tried  chown -R www-data www-data  usr lib python2 5 site-packages projectname     It s strange  I dont need to do this on the remote server to make it work   Also  I have to run the following command on local machine to make all static files accessable but on remote server they are all  root root    chown -R www-data www-data  var www projectname     Local machine runs on Ubuntu 8 04 desktop edition  Remote server is on Ubuntu 9 04 server edition   Anybody knows why

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I had an embarrassing problem     I got this error because I was rushing and forgot to put the app in INSTALLED APPS  You would think Django would raise a more descriptive error

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See which folder django try to load template look at Template-loader postmortem in error page  for example  error will sothing like this   Template-loader postmortem  Django tried loading these templates  in this order   Using engine django  django template loaders filesystem Loader  d  projects vcsrc vcsrc templates base html  Source does not exist    In my error vcsrc vcsrc templates base html not in path  Then change TEMPLATES in setting py file  to your templates path  TEMPLATES                        BACKEND    django template backends django DjangoTemplates               DIRS                 DIRS    os path join BASE DIR   vcsrc templates

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in your setting py file replace DIRS in TEMPLATES array with this    DIRS        to this    DIRS    os path join BASE DIR   templates       but 1 think u need to know is that  you have to make a folder with name templates  and it should on the root path otherwise u have to change the DIRS value

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Works on Django 3 I found I believe good way  I have the base html in root folder  and all other html files in App folders  I settings py import os    This settings are to allow store templates static and media files in root folder  BASE DIR   os path dirname os path dirname os path abspath   file      TEMPLATE DIR   os path join BASE DIR  templates   STATIC DIR   os path join BASE DIR  static   MEDIA DIR   os path join BASE DIR  media      This is default path from Django  must be added   AFTER our BASE DIR otherwise DB will be broken  BASE DIR   Path   file    resolve   parent parent    add your apps to Installed apps INSTALLED APPS          main        weblogin                        Now add TEMPLATE DIR to   DIRS  where in TEMPLATES like bellow TEMPLATES                    BACKEND    django template backends django DjangoTemplates            DIRS    TEMPLATE DIR  BASE DIR             APP DIRS   True           OPTIONS                  context processors                      django template context processors debug                    django template context processors request                    django contrib auth context processors auth                    django contrib messages context processors messages                                        On end of Settings py put this refferences to Static and Media files STATICFILES DIRS    STATIC DIR   STATIC URL     static    MEDIA ROOT    MEDIA DIR   MEDIA URL     media    If you have problem with Database  please check if you put the original BASE DIR bellow the new BASE DIR otherwise change   Original  NAME   BASE DIR    db sqlite3     to  NAME   os path join BASE DIR  db sqlite3     Django now will be able to find the HTML and Static files both in the App folders and in Root folder without need of adding the name of App folder in front of the file  Struture  -DjangoProject     -static css JS          -templates base html            -other django files like  manage py            -App1         -templates index1 html  other html files can extend now base html too          -other App1 files     -App2         -templates index2 html  other html files can extend now base html too          -other App2 files

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For the django version 1 9 I added    DIRS    os path join BASE DIR   templates        line to the Templates block in settings py And it worked well

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I must use templates for a internal APP and it works for me    DIRS    os path join BASE DIR     THE APP NAME    templates

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Just a hunch  but check out this article on Django template loading  In particular  make sure you have django template loaders app directories Loader in your TEMPLATE LOADERS list

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Check permissions on templates and appname directories  either with ls -l or try doing an absolute path open   from django

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