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Django TemplateDoesNotExist?

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.

is your TEMPLATE_DIRS readable by the webserver?
@Jordan, TEMPLATE_DIRS accessable by root is enough. It's what it's configured on remote server which is working.

T
Trilarion

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__))

@jpartogi, I tried both approaches but neither works. I even tried to use absolute path to template in render_to_response() argument but still didn't work.
Is your django project under /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/?
@jpartogi, yes, all installed apps are under /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/appname1, ...
Can you please edit your original post and paste the settings.py. Excluding the DB Config :-d. Thanks.
Django TEMPLATE_DIRSis deprecated since 1.8, docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/settings/#template-dirs
a
artu-hnrq

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(SETTINGS_PATH, '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',
            ],
        },
    },
]

SETTINGS_PATH is not actually defined anywhere, so I do not think that this answer will work. Maybe you meant BASE_DIR
define SETTINGS_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(file))
I think Shapon Pal means SETTINGS_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)), not file
Thanks this worked for me. there are lots of little pieces to orchestrate when setting up django, so this might work for some people but no others. Lots of good solutions in other responses on this post, too!
W
W.Perrin

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.

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        ...
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
                 os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'your_app_name', 'templates', 'your_app_name'),
                ...
                ]
    }
]

This was the only solution that works for me using django 2.2.7
In my case only step 2 was missing. the DIRS array I could leave that empty and it still worked and looked for the template in the right templates directory of the app.
My app was just missing from the INSTALLED_APPS Thanks!
This way is working for me. Thanks for the excellent sharing.
S
Saurabh

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',
        ],
    },
 },
]

C
Chris Conlan

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.


K
Krishnadas PC

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'
]

K
Kapilfreeman

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


k
kenorb

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',
)

P
Peter Rowell

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.


This worked for me. Loads templates from Django apps on the filesystem. For each app in INSTALLED_APPS, the loader looks for a templates subdirectory. If the directory exists, Django looks for templates in there.
TEMPLATES = [{ 'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates', 'APP_DIRS': True, }]
k
kibitzer

Check permissions on templates and appname directories, either with ls -l or try doing an absolute path open() from django.


j
jack

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?


M
Murdock Helscream

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')],

D
Diego Cortes

I must use templates for a internal APP and it works for me:

'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR + '/THE_APP_NAME', 'templates')],

n
nguyên

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')], 
        ...

K
Krishna Jangid

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


M
Muhwezi Jerald basasa

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',
    '.........',
]

A
AlexxBoro

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")


K
Kai - Kazuya Ito

May, 2022 Update:

As long as you follow this tutorial(convention) properly, you don't need to change and 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(convention) properly, "templates" are read properly whether or not "templates" folders are 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, whether or not a "templates" folder is 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 and 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
]

J
John Slegers

Check that your templates.html are in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/templates dir.


M
Massimiliano Kraus

https://i.stack.imgur.com/i1fu5.png


k
kokociel

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!


K
Keval

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


b
brass monkey

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.


C
CodeToLife

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

n
nahakubuilder

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

A
Abdullah Ismail

Simple solution

'DIRS': [BASE_DIR, 'templates'],


C
CraigP

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.


S
Samsul Islam

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',
]

I
Islam hamdi

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( )


e
en0ndev

You should type 'templates' to DIRS of TEMPLATES in your settings.py file.

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': ['templates'], <--- type 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',
            ],
        },
    },
]

This is not working in my django. that's why -1