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Yábir Garcia
Yábir Garcia

Reputation: 339

TemplateDoesNotExist but it exists

I have created a template following the django book example as the next:

<html>
<head>
    <title>Search</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form action="/search/" method="get">
        <input type="text" name="q">
        <input type="submit" value="Search">
    </form>
</body>
</html>

My views is:

def search_form(request):
    return render_to_response(request, 'search_form.html')

and my settings:

import os
RUTA_PROYECTO = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(RUTA_PROYECTO ,'templates'),)

It should work but when I run the sever i get the TemplateDoesNotExist

Upvotes: 0

Views: 184

Answers (1)

Hec
Hec

Reputation: 874

Comment out:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(RUTA_PROYECTO ,'templates'),)

Use TEMPLATE_DIRS when you want to store template in some location outside your project folder.

Change

def search_form(request):
    return render_to_response(request, 'search_form.html')

To

def search_form(request):
    return render_to_response(request, 'mywebsite/search_form.html')

You have to specify what app's template you want to pull. Otherwise two different apps with the same template name won't work. If you specify a TEMPLATE_DIRS, it will be probed if Django can't find the requested template in that app folder.

Upvotes: 1

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