django templates not found - django

Question

I have already looked for almost all questions but still none of the answers is working for me. The error I get:
My BASE_DIRS = "/home/amank/Adevelopment/test/mechanical/templates"
This is okay but still django is looking in different irrelevant paths as shown in screen shot ...
My related settings:
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
.
.
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TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates")],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'debug': DEBUG,
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
Any method to give templates path manually in settings.py?
Traceback
PROBLEM SOLVED ..But still I don't get the reason behind it .I have posted the solution below..

Answer 1

Go to your main project directory, make sure you have
templates
directory inside it. Inside templates you should have home directory inside which there should be index.html
This answer is based on image provided in Question.

Answer 2

I got it working somehow but i even don't know how it worked...Basically
I removed this part fully
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates")],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'debug': DEBUG,
'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 replaced it with
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
"/home/amank/Adevelopment/test/mechanical/templates",
)
It somehow worked . If anyone can explain why before it wasn't working on PC while same code is running it on internet www.me.iitb.ac.in ?