TemplateDoesNotExist | django 3.0.1 ,python 3.6

Question

I am new to Django , I'm working on system Windows 10 , Django version 3.0.1 ,python 3.6 I tried to use all the relevant solutions provided for this problem , but unfortunately none of those resolve my problem . I made a folder named templates in myapp and "index.html" inside it, I write some lines of code in my views.py file as

from django.shortcuts import render  
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import loader 
def index(request):
    template = loader.get_template('index.html')
    return HttpResponse(template.render())

here is my settings.py

BASE_DIR = (os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))



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

**Traceback error **

Template loader postmortem
Django tried loading these templates, in this order:

Using engine django:
    * django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader: E:\djangoLearning\myproject\myapp\templates\index.html (Source does not exist)
    * django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader: E:\djangoLearning\djangoenv\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templates\index.html (Source does not exist)
    * django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader: E:\djangoLearning\djangoenv\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\templates\index.html (Source does not exist)
    * django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader: E:\djangoLearning\myproject\myapp\templates\index.html (Source does not exist)



Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\djangoLearning\djangoenv\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\exception.py", line 34, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "E:\djangoLearning\djangoenv\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 115, in _get_response
    response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
  File "E:\djangoLearning\djangoenv\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 113, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "E:\djangoLearning\myproject\myapp\views.py", line 9, in index
    template = loader.get_template('index.html')
  File "E:\djangoLearning\djangoenv\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py", line 19, in get_template
    raise TemplateDoesNotExist(template_name, chain=chain)

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

workng directory

myproject
myapp
  templates
      index.html

Answer 1

Step:-1) Go to your project settings.py file

Add the following template list of configuration:

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

]

Step:--2) Go to your app >> Create templates folder >> create a folder by your_app_name again>> create your template file like: index.html

 Your_APP_Name
     |-templates
         |-Your_APP_Name
                |-index.html

Say, you have a blog app. So the structure will be like:

 blog
     |-templates
         |-blog
                |-index.html

Step:-3) Now you may call the template file precisely in render method. So the view will be look like:

   from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
   from django.http import HttpResponse

   def index(request):
       return render(request,'your_app_name/index.html')