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snavien
snavien

Reputation: 69

Django 1.6 Admin Page Overriding Not Working

We're trying to override the admin page for Django 1.6, but it continues to get it from django/contrib/templates/...:

settings.py:

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
    TEMPLATES = [
        {
            'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
            'DIRS': [
                [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
            ],
            'OPTIONS': {
                'context_processors': [
                    # Insert your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS here or use this
                    # list if you haven't customized them:
                    'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                    'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                    'django.template.context_processors.i18n',
                    'django.template.context_processors.media',
                    'django.template.context_processors.static',
                    'django.template.context_processors.tz',
                    'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
                ],
                'loaders': [
                    # insert your TEMPLATE_LOADERS here
                    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
                    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
                ]
            },
        },
    ]
]

and the files structure:

project
  project 
    templates
      app_name
      admin 
        file_to_override <--it varies here from being inside the app_name or inside template itself

I'm not sure why the directories arent working

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599816

I don't know why you're using Django 1.6, but the TEMPLATES dict syntax you quote is only for Django 1.8+. In previous versions, you need to specify all the options individually.

Also note you have wrongly surrounded the DIRS value with two list brackets.

   TEMPLATE_DIRS = [
        os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
   ]
   TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = [
            'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
            'django.template.context_processors.debug',
            'django.template.context_processors.i18n',
            'django.template.context_processors.media',
            'django.template.context_processors.static',
            'django.template.context_processors.tz',
            'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
        ]
        TEMPLATE_LOADERS = [
            # insert your TEMPLATE_LOADERS here
            'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
            'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
        ]

Upvotes: 1

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