My customers urls.py
'''
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.base ,name= 'customer-base'),
path('Hall/', views.Hall ,name= 'customer-Hall'),
path('Food_item/', views.Food_item ,name= 'customer-food'),
path('About_us/', views.About_us ,name= 'customer-about'),
]
'''
My Web_project urls.py
'''
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('', include('customer.urls')),
]
'''
My views.py
'''
def base(request):
return render(request, "customer/base.html", {"title":"base"})
def Hall(request):
return render(request, "customer/Hall.html", {"title":"Hall"})
def Food_item(request):
return render(request, "customer/Food_item.html", {"title":"Food"})
def About_us(request):
return render(request, "customer/About_us.html", {"title":"About"})
'''
I have tried everything but did not work for me.
Check in your settings.py that this line you have configured or not
you have not created customer folder inside your templates folder or you forgot to add your base.html inside customer folder
TEMPLATES = [
{
....
'DIRS': [BASE_DIR / 'templates'],
}
]
Your problem is not exactly defined. But the problem is in the placement of your templates folder.
In settings.py:
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [BASE_DIR / 'templates'], # adding templates folder to base directory of each app
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
# ... some options here ...
},
},
]
If You have an app called Customer then inside the app there's the templates directory then in views:
def Hall(request):
return render(request, "Hall.html", {"title":"Hall"})
should get the Hall.html placed in the templates folder of the same.
Make sure you have the folder structure like below:
├── db.sqlite3
├── manage.py
├── customer
├── templates
│ └── customer
│ └── base.html
│ └── Hall.html
│ └── Food_item.html
│ └── About_us.html
└── Web_project
I've got an account at heliohost.org (Johnny Server) and I'm desperately trying to deploy a most simple Django application without any success. It's actually a very simple test application to check everything works fine, but it doesn't.
There are several error logs:
https://pastebin.com/xJBB50dF
And these are the most important files' contents:
.htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(media/.*)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(admin_media/.*)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(dispatch\.wsgi/.*)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /InformeSO/dispatch.wsgi/$1 [QSA,PT,L]
dispatch.wsgi:
import os, sys
# edit your username below
sys.path.append("/home/alber80/public_html")
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'InformeSO.settings'
application = get_wsgi_application()
settings.py:
"""
Django settings for InformeSO project.
Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 3.0.8.
For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/settings/
For the full list of settings and their values, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/settings/
"""
import os
# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/deployment/checklist/
# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = 'nf7w+ajbhz=s_#2y&72&*$v)x#1q2pccrv6t!!*#5l7tx7#$#t'
# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True
ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
# Application definition
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]
MIDDLEWARE = [
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]
ROOT_URLCONF = 'InformeSO.urls'
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': ['InformeSO/plantillas'],
'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',
],
},
},
]
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'InformeSO.wsgi.application'
# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/settings/#databases
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
}
}
# Password validation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
},
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
},
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
},
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
},
]
# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/i18n/
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True
# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/static-files/
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
urls.py:
"""InformeSO URL Configuration
The `urlpatterns` list routes URLs to views. For more information please see:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/http/urls/
Examples:
Function views
1. Add an import: from my_app import views
2. Add a URL to urlpatterns: path('', views.home, name='home')
Class-based views
1. Add an import: from other_app.views import Home
2. Add a URL to urlpatterns: path('', Home.as_view(), name='home')
Including another URLconf
1. Import the include() function: from django.urls import include, path
2. Add a URL to urlpatterns: path('blog/', include('blog.urls'))
"""
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from InformeSO.views import get_informe
urlpatterns = [
#path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
#path('informe_sistema/', get_informe)
]
views.py:
from django.http import HttpResponse
import datetime
from os import system, uname
from django.template import Template, Context
from django.template.loader import get_template
class Informe(object):
def __init__(self):
self.so = uname().sysname
self.version = uname().version
self.distro = uname().release
self.arquit = uname().machine
def get_informe(request):
informe = Informe()
doc_externo = get_template('informeso.html')
dicc = {"so": informe.so, "version": informe.version,
"distro": informe.distro, "arquitectura": informe.arquit}
documento = doc_externo.render(dicc)
return HttpResponse(documento)
And finally, this is the project's directory tree:
InformeSO
├── db.sqlite3
├── InformeSO
│ ├── asgi.py
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── plantillas
│ │ └── informeso.html
│ ├── __pycache__
│ │ ├── __init__.cpython-38.pyc
│ │ ├── settings.cpython-38.pyc
│ │ ├── urls.cpython-38.pyc
│ │ ├── views.cpython-38.pyc
│ │ └── wsgi.cpython-38.pyc
│ ├── settings.py
│ └── views.py
└── manage.py
Although I just realised I'm trying to deploy a Python / Django application which references some modules that might not be available on Heliohost.org, because this site doesn't allow shell access, please let me know if you come up with the issue.
Thank you very much in advance.
Try changing ALLOWED_HOSTS = [] to
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
Thank you for your answer. I already tried that and it gives another error saying that it cannot find the template referred in the code. I have modified the paths in the code and also the directory structure.
I already solved it by specifying the absolute path of the html document, instead of relative path. Thank you very much for your help. :-)
I'm trying to customize the 404 error pages in my application. After searching many possible solutions, I created an 404.html template, added a method which should handle HTTP Error 404 and edited my urls.py.
But I guess I'm doing something really wrong. My log presents an invalid syntax error and I cannot solve it.
My views.py:
# HTTP Error 400
def page_not_found(request):
response = render_to_response('404.html',context_instance=RequestContext(request))
response.status_code = 404
return response
And the syntax error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/.../myenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 393, in urlconf_module
return self._urlconf_module
AttributeError: 'RegexURLResolver' object has no attribute '_urlconf_module'
...
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 321, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "/home/dcaled/work/portal-interface/portal/urls.py", line 12
handler404 = 'views.handler404'
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?
Thanks.
UPDATE:
After #Alasdair suggestion, I made some changes and fixes. The error has stopped.
Now, my urls.py is like:
handler404 = 'views.page_not_found'
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.home),]
But I still don't get my custom 404.html when accessing a non existing page.
Instead, a default page is loaded, with this message:
"Not Found
The requested URL /url/404 not found on this server."
Also, my settings.py:
DEBUG = False
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR , 'portal/templates'),)
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',
],
},
},
]
My project tree:
├── fb_dev
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── __pycache__
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── urls.py
│ └── wsgi.py
├── manage.py
│
└── portal
├── admin.py
├── forms.py
├── json
├── migrations
├── models.py
├── static
├── templates
│ ├── 404.html
│ └── portal
│ ├── base.html
│ ├── home.html
├── templatetags
├── urls.py
└── views.py
After some months, I revisited the problem and identified a solution. Here is the answer:
a) I removed page_not_found method from the views.py. There's no need to add it. Django automatically gets and renders the 404.html template.
b) Once again, there's no need to edit urls.py. So I removed this line:
handler404 = 'views.page_not_found'
c) Also, it is necessary to edit settings.py, setting DEBUG to FALSE.
DEBUG = False
And I removed the following line:
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR , 'portal/templates'),)
d) Finally, I created a 404.html template in my portal/templates directory. It is worth noticing that the custom template was rendered only when placed inside this directory.
After some troubles, the revy solution worked perfectly. So, just to clarify:
The Two things to do are:
Add a 404.html file in your_app/template/404.html
Set your DEBUG value to False
After that, Django will render automatically your template.
The handler404 should be outside urlpatterns. If the view is called page_not_found, then it should refer to page_not_found, not handler404.
handler404 = 'views.page_not_found'
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.home),
]
However, in your case, you do not need a custom 404 handler at all. Remove the handler404 line completely, and the default page_not_found view will render your 404.html template.
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.
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__))
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(BASE_DIR, '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',
],
},
},
]
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.
Add os import
import os
TEMPLATES = [
{
...
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'your_app_name', 'templates', 'your_app_name'),
...
]
}
]
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',
],
},
},
]
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.
As of Django version tested on version 3, You need to add your new app to installed app. No other code change is required for a django app
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'addyourappnamehere'
]
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
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',
)
May, 2022 Update:
As long as you follow this tutorial properly, you don't need to change(touch) the default settings of "TEMPLATES" in "settings.py" as shown below:
# "core/settings.py"
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",
],
},
},
]
And again, as long as you follow this tutorial properly, "templates" can be read properly under application folders as shown below:
root
├── core
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── urls.py
│ ...
├── myapp1
│ ├── templates
│ │ └── myapp1
│ │ └── myapp1.html
│ ├── urls.py
│ ├── views.py
│ ...
├── myapp2
│ ├── templates
│ │ └── myapp2
│ │ └── myapp2.html
│ ├── urls.py
│ ├── views.py
│ ...
And "templates" can be read properly under a root django project folder as shown below:
root
├── core
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── urls.py
│ ...
├── myapp1
│ ├── urls.py
│ ├── views.py
│ ...
├── myapp2
│ ├── urls.py
│ ├── views.py
│ ...
├── templates
│ ├── myapp1
| | └── myapp1.html
| └── myapp2
| └── myapp2.html
So, the key things which you need to do are just don't change(touch) the default settings of "TEMPLATES" in "settings.py" as shown below:
# "core/settings.py"
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",
],
},
},
]
Then, set "myapp1" and "myapp2" applicatons to "INSTALLED_APPS" in "core/settings.py" as shown below:
# "core/settings.py"
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
"myapp1",
"myapp2",
]
Then, write each "views.py" of "myapp1" and "myapp2" applications as shown below. Be careful, you need to write each "templates" path "myapp1/myapp1.html" and "myapp2/myapp2.html" instead of just writing each "templates" path "myapp1.html" and "myapp2.html" in "render()" as shown below:
# "myapp1/views.py"
from django.shortcuts import render
def myapp1(request): # Don't write just "myapp1.html"
return render(request, "myapp1/myapp1.html")
# "myapp2/views.py"
from django.shortcuts import render
def myapp2(request): # Don't write just "myapp2.html"
return render(request, "myapp2/myapp2.html")
Then, set each "views.py" path of "myapp1" and "myapp2" applications as shown below:
# "myapp1/views.py"
from django.urls import include, path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path("", views.myapp1, name='myapp1'), # Here
]
# "myapp2/views.py"
from django.urls import include, path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path("", views.myapp2, name='myapp2'), # Here
]
Then, set each path to "urls.py" of "myapp1" and "myapp2" applications in "core/urls.py" as shown below. Finally, The templates of "myapp1" and "myapp2" applications will be read without any errors:
# "core/urls.py"
from django.urls import include, path
urlpatterns = [
...
path("myapp1/", include('myapp1.urls')), # Here
path("myapp2/", include('myapp2.urls')), # Here
]
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.
Check permissions on templates and appname directories, either with ls -l or try doing an absolute path open() from django.
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?
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')],
I must use templates for a internal APP and it works for me:
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR + '/THE_APP_NAME', 'templates')],
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')],
...
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
add rest_framework to the INSTALLED_APPS if django rest framework. For my case I had missed adding it to the installed apps.
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'..........',,
'rest_framework',
'.........',
]
In my case it was enough just to include my application in INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py file:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
"myapp",
"django.contrib.admin",
"django.contrib.auth",
"django.contrib.contenttypes",
"django.contrib.sessions",
"django.contrib.messages",
"django.contrib.staticfiles",
]
Also, remember that the template should be placed in your directory like so:
myapp/templates/myapp/template_name.html
but when you point at this template you do this like that:
template = loader.get_template("myapp/template_name.html")
django was configured to use templates in project_name/app_name/templates/app_name/template.html when referred with render(request, 'app_name/template.html', context)
If you got Template exception the reason is that you hadn't add app_name to installed_apps in settings.
I had the issue with django 4.1
Check that your templates.html are in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/templates dir.
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:
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!
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
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.
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
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
Simple solution
'DIRS': [BASE_DIR, 'templates'],
My problem was that I changed the name of my app. Not surprisingly, Visual Studio did not change the directory name containing the template. Manually correcting that solved the problem.
Another cause of the "template does not exist" error seems to be forgetting to add the app name in settings.py. I forgot to add it and that was the reason for the error in my case.
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'my_app',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]
in TEMPLATES :
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [r'C:\Users\islam\Desktop\html_project\django\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',
],
},
},
]
put the full directory of your templates file, then in views :
def home(request):
return render(request, "home\index.html")
start the path that after templates to the html file
in brief :
the full path is :
C:\Users\islam\Desktop\html_project\django\templates\home\index.html
C:\Users\islam\Desktop\html_project\django\templates
the full path to your template file will be in TEMPLATES in 'DIRS': [' ']
home\index.html the path that comes after template will be in render( )