Django URL not rendering templates - django

Question

Instead of directing me to the page django is simply returning the following error:
“C:\Users\RodrigoPinto\Desktop\Insider\users\register” does not exist
This is my url;
from django.urls import path
from users import employee_views
from users import views as auth_views
from django.contrib.auth.views import LoginView, LogoutView
app_name = 'users'
urlpatterns = [
path('login/', LoginView.as_view(template_name='users/login.html')),
path('logout/', LogoutView.as_view(template_name='users/logout.html'), name='logout'),
path('register/', auth_views.Register.as_view, name='register'),
path('profile/', auth_views.Profile.as_view, name='profile'),
path('listView/', employee_views.AccountsListView.as_view, name='listView'),
path('update/<pk>/', employee_views.AccountsUpdate.as_view, name='updateView'),
path('password_update/<pk>/', employee_views.update_password, name='password_update'),
path('delete/<pk>/', employee_views.AccountsDelete.as_view, name='deleteView'),
]
and on the main app i have this inside the URL;
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from users import urls as user_urls
app_name = "inside"
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('', include('inside.urls')),
path('users/', include(user_urls)),
]
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
I've been over this code for the last two hours and I cant understand what I'm doing wrong. Maybe someone can see something that I'm missing.
Also my template directory in settings is configured like this;
template_dir = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'users', 'templates'),
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'forums', 'templates'),
]
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': template_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',
],
},
},
]
views.py;
from django.urls import reverse_lazy
from .forms import UserCreateForm
from django.views.generic import CreateView, TemplateView
from django.contrib.messages.views import SuccessMessageMixin
from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin
class Register(SuccessMessageMixin, CreateView):
form_class = UserCreateForm
success_url = reverse_lazy('users:login')
template_name = 'users/register.html'
success_message = 'Your Account has been created!'
class Profile(LoginRequiredMixin, TemplateView):
template_name = 'users/profile.html'
separate file to keep code cleaner employee_views.py;
from django.views.generic import TemplateView, ListView, UpdateView, DeleteView
from django.contrib.messages.views import SuccessMessageMixin
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin
from django.contrib.messages import error, success
from django.shortcuts import redirect, reverse
from django.urls import reverse_lazy
from django.shortcuts import render
from .models import User
#login_required()
def update_password(request, pk):
if request.method == "POST":
form_data = request.POST
if form_data['password1'] == form_data['password2'] and len(form_data['password1']) > 7:
u = User.objects.get(pk=pk)
u.set_password(form_data['password1'])
success(request, "Your Password has been updated!")
u.save()
return redirect(reverse('users:listView'))
else:
error(request, "Please check your passwords!")
return render(request, "users/users/change_password.html", context={'pk': pk})
return render(request, "users/users/change_password.html", context={'pk': pk})
class Profile(LoginRequiredMixin, TemplateView):
template_name = 'users/profile.html'
class AccountsListView(LoginRequiredMixin, ListView):
model = User
paginate_by = 15
template_name = "users/profile.html"
class AccountsUpdate(LoginRequiredMixin, SuccessMessageMixin, UpdateView):
model = User
fields = ('username',
'first_name',
'last_name',
'email',
'image',
'is_admin',
'is_supervisor',
)
template_name = 'user_update_form.html'
success_url = reverse_lazy('users:listView')
class AccountsDelete(LoginRequiredMixin, DeleteView):
model = User
success_url = reverse_lazy('users:listView')
template_name = 'users/user_confirm_delete.html'

Answer 1

the problem is 99% sure in this statement:
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
I guess in your settings.py you have something like
MEDIA_URL = '/users/register/'
MEDIA_ROOT = 'C:/....../register'
You access "127.0.0.1:8000/users/register/ and the static(...) catches the request and produces exactly the error message you get.
That is also the reason why you do not get the usual detailed Django Error trace.

Answer 2

If your using generic class based views you need to have the structure like this
app_name
|
|--templates
|
| -- app_name
|
|--register.html
If the error is occuring the login url, its looking in the specifed template for register.html.