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Reputation: 373

Templates directory outside Django root

I have a templates directory /var/opt/backoffice/templates and inside there is a template called foo.html. The directory is outside the Django root directory, which is /opt/backoffice.

I am trying to get Django to access the foo.html template in /var/opt/backoffice/templates using the get_templates('foo.html') command, but no matter what I try I get the error: django.template.exceptions.TemplateDoesNotExist: foo.html

My settings.py for templates is:

    TEMPLATES = [
        {
            'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
           
            'DIRS': [
            'var/opt/backoffice/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',
                ],
            },
        },
    ]

My question is , how can I configure Django so that I can access the template in /var/opt/backoffice/templates using get_templates('foo.html')?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 494

Answers (1)

Edoardo Facchinelli
Edoardo Facchinelli

Reputation: 422

You're missing a slash before var, that makes it a subdirectory rather than a root level dir:

'DIRS': [
    '/var/opt/backoffice/templates'
],

I did not check with /var but it did work for me in another folder of my home directory outside of the Django project

Upvotes: 1

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