I've seen this question asked before, but I'm already using the newer TEMPLATES data structure which is the common solution.
From the tango with django book, I'm currently on unit 4. When I run my program with python manage.py runserver
I receive the following error:
TemplateDoesNotExist at /rango/
rango/index.html
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/rango/
Django Version: 1.5.1
Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist
Exception Value:
rango/index.html
Here is the relevant code in my ~/Workspace/wad2/tango_with_django_project/setings.py file:
# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
TEMPLATE_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'tango_with_django_project', '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',
],
},
},
]
.
.
Also, here is the relevant code in my ~/Workspace/wad2/rango/views.py file:
def index(request):
context_dict = {'boldmessage': "Crunchy, creamy, cookie, candy, cupcake!"}
return render(request, 'rango/index.html', context_dict)
Also, I cannot solve this problem with a direct path since I am trying to stick to the tutorial with dynamic pahs. Lastly, my template is located at ~/Workspace/wad2/tango_with_django_project/templates/rango/index.html
This was solved by updating my django version with:
pip install django==1.10.5
Related
I am studying Django and got stuck right at the first project.
I've got TemplateDoesNotExist exception when accessing index page of my application. I saw a lot of same looking questions here, but answers seem to be referring to slightly different cases or older Django versions.
Template-loader postmortem shows that Django looked for the index page (index.html) in the 'movies/templates' directory, while file is placed inside 'movies/templates/movies' as it is suggested by manuals.
Project info
Project structure
'movies' is added to the INSTALLED_APPS list in the settings.py
And movies/views.py refers to the index.html in following way:
def all_films(request):
return render(request, 'index.html', {'movies': my_movies, 'director': settings.DIRECTOR})
What worked
Adding 'os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'movies', 'templates', 'movies'),' to the TEMPLATES['DIRS'] values in the settings.py makes it work, but after reading manuals and answers to same questions I assume it shouldn't be required.
Also, if I change movies/views.py so that it refers to 'movies/index.html' instead of 'index.html' everything works. But is it a good practice to use app name in links like this? I mean, it could be hard to maintain in future etc.
Question
Basically, question is what am I doing/getting wrong.
Could you please suggest, what else should I check to make it work in default state without manual editing of TEMPLATES' DIRS property?
P.S. I am using Django 3.2.7, OS is Ubuntu.
Check if 'APP_DIRS': True in settings.py>TEMPLATES
This should work!
settings.py
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [BASE_DIR / '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',
],
},
},
]
views.py
def all_films(request):
return render(request, 'movies/index.html', {'movies': my_movies, 'director': settings.DIRECTOR})
I'm using django 3.0.
I use django-admin startproject mysite and created a sample django project.
I don't think the sample project has any models so I commented out "django.contrib.contenttypes" in INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py. I also commented out all middlewares.
I then wrote a simple view
from django.shortcuts import render
def index(request):
return render(request, 'hello.html')
and hello.html is just a blank file.
Once I access the page, django throws exception
Model class django.contrib.contenttypes.models.ContentType doesn't
declare an explicit app_label and isn't in an application in
INSTALLED_APPS.
Can anyone help explain the exception? The sample project doesn't have any model, why do I need django.contrib.contenttypes? Can django websites live without django.contrib.contenttypes?
I have to remove django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth in TEMPLATES.
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [BASE_DIR+"/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 wanted to add custom error pages to my website, butI am getting the simple pages, for example the 403 error I am not getting the template I built. template is located in templates/http_errors/ folder.
my template settings in settings file looks like this:
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [normpath(join(PROJECT_DIR, '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',
'django.template.context_processors.media',
'django.template.context_processors.i18n'
],
},
},
]
and urls.py:
from django.conf.urls import handler403
handler403 = 'core.views.custom_handler403'
and views.py:
def custom_handler403(request):
response = render_to_response('http_errors/HTTP403.html', {},
context_instance=RequestContext(request))
response.status_code = 403
return response
I tried a lot of options found on django docs and stackoverflow but could not still find the answer. It would be great if you helped me with this.
P.S. I am using Django 1.10 and Python 3.5
These custom pages will only work if you have DEBUG = False in your settings. Otherwise normal debug handlers will be used
So I work on windows and I try to load my websit home page. However I get the ''Templates doesnot exist '' errors I don't know why,
TemplateDoesNotExist at /
home/home.html
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Django Version: 1.10.1
Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist
Exception Value:
home/home.html
Exception Location: C:\Python35\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py in get_template, line 25
Python Executable: C:\Python35\python.exe
Python Version: 3.5.2
Python Path:
Here is my Tracerback
you can see there that Django cannot even load some templates to be tested with. I'v seen others who have the same problem but at leat there was a list of tried template me I don't even have this.
here is my home/views.py
class IndexView(View):
template_name = 'home/home.html'
# not logged in
def get(self, request):
return render(request, self.template_name)
here is my templates variable in my setting.py
TEMPLATE = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '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',
],
},
},
]
in my code and my structure is
this and you can see that I added Home in the installed_app
yet after changing the path root of project, changing my python version (3.5 instead of 2.7) put a templates folder on the same level of my manage.py and change APPS_DIR to false i still get nothing. I have try to know if it was a path problem so I put the file in the root of project and test with isFile function of python and the return was true but if I try to render the page the same link I get the error.So I don't know if it's my code, my configuration of my project(virtual environnement, django etc) and It really gets annoying I use pycharm and I'm on windows 8.1
You could try with this path in settings.py to properly call the template:
'DIRS': [
os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'templates').replace('\\','/'),
],
You are not supposed to place your apps on an apps package. Try replacing your applications architecture to something like
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'applications.events',
'applications.student',
'applications.resume',
'applications.home`,
]
instead of "something.apps.somethingelse".
that is Pythonic.
I am new to Django. I use pydev eclipse as an IDE. First I created a project then an application welcome on that project. I made a folder named Templates within the project and make a file "home.html" and home.html contains
<div>
This is my first site
</div>
I modify the settings.py file as
TEMPLATE_DIRS = ("Templates")
INSTALLED_APPS = (
..........#all default items
'welcome', #the added one
)
views.py includes
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
def home(request):
return render_to_response('home.html')
urls.py contains
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from welcome.views import home
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
# Examples:
# url(r'^$', 'MajorProject.views.home', name='home'),
# url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls')),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
url(r'^home/$', home),
)
then I run it as django project and open my browser and see on localhost:8000/home
it shows error
TemplateDoesNotExist at /home/
home.html
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://localhost:8000/home/
Django Version: 1.6
Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist
Exception Value:
home.html
Exception Location: C:\Python27\django\template\loader.py in find_template, line 131
Python Executable: C:\Python27\python.exe
Python Version: 2.7.2
Python Path:
['D:\\Bishnu\\BE\\4th year\\8th semester\\Major Project II\\Working\\Workspace\\MajorProject',
'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\distribute-0.6.35-py2.7.egg',
'D:\\Bishnu\\BE\\4th year\\8th semester\\Major Project II\\Working\\Workspace\\MajorProject',
'C:\\Python27\\DLLs',
'C:\\Python27\\lib',
'C:\\Python27\\lib\\plat-win',
'C:\\Python27\\lib\\lib-tk',
'C:\\Python27',
'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages',
'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-unicode',
'C:\\Windows\\SYSTEM32\\python27.zip']
Server time: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 14:25:52 +0545
Try to set Templates Directory on setting.py.
as
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),'templates'),
)
If you're using Django 1.8+
You'll get this warning:
(1_8.W001) The standalone TEMPLATE_* settings were deprecated in Django 1.8 and the TEMPLATES dictionary takes precedence. You must put the values of the following settings into your default TEMPLATES dict: TEMPLATE_DIRS, TEMPLATE_DEBUG.
Add your template directory to the Base TEMPLATES setting under the DIRS dictionary
Like so:
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [
root("templates"), #### Here ####
],
'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',
],
},
},
]
in Django 1.9
in settings.py
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [BASE_DIR+r'\templates'],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
...
],
},
},
]
Directory with templates should be named templates, not Templates (even though on windows it may be the same). Also make sure, you have application in PYTHONPATH or the correct directory structure of your project and application like:
project/
project/
settings.py
...
welcome/
templates/
home.html
views.py
...
manage.py
Then you don't need to change TEMPLATE_DIRS because app_directories.Loader (enabled by default) will find the templates in your application.
Also of if you still want to change TEMPLATE_DIRS, use absolute paths, but preferred way is the app_directories.Loader.
check below steps to fix
step 1:
Inside templates, 'DIRS' : [ ], metion this:
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
step 2:
Go in your views.py file and look for template_name (check its spelling and also check did you mentioned the right html file here or not)
step 3:
Check in your urls.py file wether you mentioned the right template name or not in the path
format: urlpatterns = [ path(" ", class name or function name, name = template name)
BASE_DIR = Path(file).resolve().parent.parent
This is default directory code by Django
And looks like this
C:\user\pc_name\django_project
But if you delete last .parent it will looks like this
C:\user\pc_name\django_project\django_project
So new BASE_DIR code which is this
BASE_DIR = Path(file).resolve().parent
Add this variable to TEMPLATE_DIR
TEMPLATE_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'template")
And last code define this
C:\user\pc_name\django_project\django_project\template
In the end safely uptade DIRS
'DIRS': 'TEMPLATE_DIR'
Hope you did