Django : TemplateDoesNotExist at /

Question

I'm trying to upgrade a django project from 1.8 to 1.10.

I have changed a view function from

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import RequestContext, loader
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from sellmyland.settings import DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL
from ipware.ip import get_ip
import json
from myapp.forms import myform


def index(request):


    form = myform()

    # return render('longform.html', {"form": form}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

return render(request, 'longform.html', {'form': form})

settings.py:

# TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
#     # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
#     # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
#     # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
#     os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
# )

TEMPLATE_DIRS = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        # 'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
        'DIRS': os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR),'templates'),
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            # some options
        },
    },
]

You can see the commented out version in the code. I'm getting the error above. Here is the traceback:

Traceback:

File "E:...\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py" in inner
  42.             response = get_response(request)

File "E:...\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in _legacy_get_response
  249.             response = self._get_response(request)

File "E:...\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in _get_response
  187.                 response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)

File "E:...\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in _get_response
  185.                 response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)

File "E:\ENVS\r3\sellmyland3\app1\views.py" in index
  30.     return render(request, 'longform.html', {'form': form})

File "E:...\lib\site-packages\django\shortcuts.py" in render
  30.     content = loader.render_to_string(template_name, context, request, using=using)

File "E:...\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py" in render_to_string
  67.         template = get_template(template_name, using=using)

File "E:...\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py" in get_template
  25.     raise TemplateDoesNotExist(template_name, chain=chain)

Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist at /
Exception Value: longform.html

How can I get this working?

Answer 1

The new setting is TEMPLATES, not TEMPLATE_DIRS.