Django: TemplateDoesNotExist at / - django

Question

I am using Django 3.0.7 and have a project named starling and an app named piggybank. I placed my index.html inside templates/starling inside the piggybank directory
The following urls.py is inside piggybank:
from django.urls import path
from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path("", views.index, name="index"),
]
The urls.py in starling (project) is:
"""starling 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, include
urlpatterns = [
path("", include("piggybank.urls")),
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]
My full settings.py:
"""
Django settings for starling project.
Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 3.0.7.
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 = ')4^iro*2zhq%f9w2du33eu#ja%)&_cqltplq9b2lzu+qf#xz(6'
# 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 = 'starling.urls'
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',
],
},
},
]
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'starling.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/'
Template-loader post mortem:
Django tried loading these templates, in this order:
Using engine django:
django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader: /home/anna/starling/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/starling/index.html (Source does not exist)
django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader: /home/anna/starling/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/templates/starling/index.html (Source does not exist)
And lastly an image of my directories:

Answer 1

To fix the problem, add piggybank to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.
In your TEMPLATES setting, you have:
'APP_DIRS': True,
This is the default, and means that Django will look at the templates directory for each app in INSTALLED_APPS. In the post mortem you can see:
django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader: /home/anna/starling/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/starling/index.html (Source does not exist)
django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader: /home/anna/starling/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/templates/starling/index.html (Source does not exist)
It's not looking in the piggybank/templates directory because you haven't added piggybank to INSTALLED_APPS yet.

Answer 2

You need are missing TEMPLATES DIR
read this django templates
try this
settings.py
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')], # your dir template path

Answer 3

I got this error when I forgot to add the app in installed apps:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'app.apps.AppConfig',
...
]
app is the name of you app, so if your apps name was myApp,
then it would be: 'myApp.apps.MyappConfig',