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HuLu ViCa
HuLu ViCa

Reputation: 5450

Django render can't locate a template that actually exists

I have the following view in my Django project:

import os
from django.shortcuts import render
from JumboDjango import settings

# Create your views here.
def index(request):
    filename = os.path.join(settings.BASE_DIR, 'frontend/source/public/index.html')
    return render(request, filename)

But, when it is called, it raises the following exception:

Internal Server Error: /
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/hugovillalobos/Documents/Code/JumboDjangoProject/JumboDjangoVenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 34, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "/Users/hugovillalobos/Documents/Code/JumboDjangoProject/JumboDjangoVenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 115, in _get_response
    response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
  File "/Users/hugovillalobos/Documents/Code/JumboDjangoProject/JumboDjangoVenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 113, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/Users/hugovillalobos/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/contextlib.py", line 74, in inner
    return func(*args, **kwds)
  File "/Users/hugovillalobos/Documents/Code/JumboDjangoProject/JumboDjango/frontend/views.py", line 8, in index
    return render(request, filename)
  File "/Users/hugovillalobos/Documents/Code/JumboDjangoProject/JumboDjangoVenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/shortcuts.py", line 36, in render
    content = loader.render_to_string(template_name, context, request, using=using)
  File "/Users/hugovillalobos/Documents/Code/JumboDjangoProject/JumboDjangoVenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 61, in render_to_string
    template = get_template(template_name, using=using)
  File "/Users/hugovillalobos/Documents/Code/JumboDjangoProject/JumboDjangoVenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 19, in get_template
    raise TemplateDoesNotExist(template_name, chain=chain)
django.template.exceptions.TemplateDoesNotExist: /Users/hugovillalobos/Documents/Code/JumboDjangoProject/JumboDjango/frontend/source/public/index.html
[26/Sep/2019 02:51:04] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 500 79956

You can see in the following image that /Users/hugovillalobos/Documents/Code/JumboDjangoProject/JumboDjango/frontend/source/public/index.html actually exists:

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I don't know if I am missing any Django configuration, or something.

EDIT

This is my templates settings:

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',
            ],
        },
    },
]

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1177

Answers (2)

sandeep
sandeep

Reputation: 711

First of all, You should always keep html files and static files (css, js, json) seperate.

this is good approch for me which I always use. For HTML files, define template directory in project folder.

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
        .
        .
        .

    },
]

This templates folder should be in project directory. inside this folder, you can create folder for your apps or anything. Like current case, a public folder inside templates and html file inside it. You can access this file like this:

return render(request, 'public/index.html')

---Edit------

For condition in this question, if public is folder where we will have all html files and JumboDjango is project directory, then:

settings.py

TEMPLATES = [
        {
            'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
            'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'frontend/source/public/')],
            .
            .
            .

        },
    ]

views.py

return render(request, 'index.html')

if we create another folder inside public like folder1, then

return render(request, 'folder1/index.html')

But separate folder for static files is necessary.

Upvotes: 2

Devang Padhiyar
Devang Padhiyar

Reputation: 3697

You need to add the directory to your TEMPLATES settings under the DIRS key.

It allows the Django template engine to look for template files in that folder. For instance, if your template directory is /Users/hugovillalobos/Documents/Code/JumboDjangoProject/JumboDjango/frontend/source

So you need to add it as below to DIRS

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
             "/Users/hugovillalobos/Documents/Code/JumboDjangoProject/JumboDjango/frontend/source"
        ],
        ...
        ...
    },
]

You need to render your template by giving the relative path to the render method.

import os
from django.shortcuts import render
from JumboDjango import settings

# Create your views here.
def index(request):
    return render(request, "public/index.html")  # Add a relative path to your template folder here.

Upvotes: 0

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