Template File not found-CodePudding

So I am trying to open a template from...

But the template file is not shown as below...

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


# Create your views here.
def index(request):
    return render(request, "home/index.html")

Weird thing is that my webpage still works, and when I delete that function it does not.

Here is some additional Info...

settings.py

# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'project_long_page',
    'about',
    'home',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

home/urls.py

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path("", views.index, name="index"),
]

Part 2 Question:

Added...

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [str(BASE_DIR.joinpath('templates'))]  # 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',
            ],
        },
    },
]

HTML Pages Within App (Don't mind errors in .HTML, I'll figure it out!)

base.html

Part 3: What is interesting is even though it says... Unresolved template reference '"main_header.html"' the code is still working and posted to the webpage. I have no idea how as it wasn't working before.

Part 4:

Added this in base.html

{% extends 'Headings/Headings1/base.html' %}

From settings..

'DIRS': [str(BASE_DIR.joinpath('templates'))]  # BASE_DIR / 'templates'

Still not found. Yet the webpage is still working.

CodePudding user response：

Your templates folder should be within your app folder home (under about), otherwise Django won't find it. Check out https://django-project-skeleton.readthedocs.io/en/latest/structure.html for the proper file structure. My guess is the same could be said for the other folders withing your templates folder. You can have a templates folder in your root, but I don't think this is what you will need in your case.

To create a global template, you can have a template folder in your root 'testWebsite' directory like you already have. Then in your settings.py do the following:

# settings.py

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        ...
        'DIRS': [str(BASE_DIR.joinpath('templates'))],
        ...
    },
]

What I usually do is create a base.html in each app, then in each of your html pages within the app you can add a line like {% extends "home/base.html" %}. And in each of your base.html files add {% extends "base.html" %}

Something like this (I didn't include all the files, just a sample):

testWebsite
├── about
│   └── templates
│       └── about
│           ├── base.html
│           └── about.html
├── home
│   └── templates
│       └── home
│           ├── base.html
│           ├── greet.html
│           └── index.html
├── project_long_page
│   └── templates
│       └── project_long_page
│           ├── base.html
│           └── project_long_page.html
├── templates
│   └── base.html
└── testWebsite
    └── settings.py