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saeedzali
saeedzali

Reputation: 45

solve issue of django template does not exist

this is current_datetime.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
    it is now {{date time}}
</body>
</html>

this is templates in settings.py

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',
            ],
        },
    },
]

this is views.py

import datetime

from django.shortcuts import render

def current_datetime(request):
    now=datetime.datetime.now()
    return render(request,'mysite/template/current_datetime.html',{'datetime':now})

this is urls.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls,name="admin"),
    path('current_datetime/',views.current_datetime,name="current_datetime"),
]

and this is my directory

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but when i run server by "python manage.py run server" and go to this url:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/current_datetime/

i got this error:

TemplateDoesNotExist at /current_datetime/

Upvotes: 0

Views: 641

Answers (2)

Raheel Junaid
Raheel Junaid

Reputation: 587

You had everything set up correctly except for a few things

  • Your templates folder was named "template" instead of "templates"
  • You didn't create a Django App and were instead working in the root project folder

To fix this problem you have to run

$ django-admin startapp "your_app_name"

And then add the app under INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py. Once that has been created, you can move the templates folder into the new app and then the URL route "/current_datetime.html" should work. Django automatically goes through the template folders in every app, but if you don't have an app then it throws a TemplateDoesNotExist error.

I'm glad I could help!

Upvotes: 1

Raheel Junaid
Raheel Junaid

Reputation: 587

I believe the template should be loading fine (assuming that you changed the folder name to templates instead of template, but it's the path that may be incorrect.

def current_datetime(request):
now=datetime.datetime.now()
return render(request, '/current_datetime.html', {'datetime':now})

This is because Django has already found your templates directory, so now you only need to specify the path to the file within the folder itself.

Upvotes: 1

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