You can put the templates anywhere you want, by a good place is a directory named templates in the base directory of your project, i.e.
C:\DjangoProjects\mysite\templates\ Don't forget to add this path to the TEMPLATE_DIRS variable in your settings.py. The template file from the example would be placed at C:\DjangoProjects\mysite\templates\polls\index.html You can probably ignore the document root for now, but I'll try to explain what it means. The term "document root" refers to the directory that a webserver like Apache uses to look for files. Let's say the webserver running on example.com is configured with document_root = C:\apache\htdocs. If you visit http://example.com/foo.html, the webserver would serve you the file C:\apache\htdocs\foo.html. I hope that makes sense and doesn't add to the confusion. Daniel On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Anthony Pearce <coden...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now I feel stupid. That intelligent comment flew right over my head. > I'm not sure yet where apache is falling in here yet, nor do I know > what htdocs is. > > I should mention I'm using Windows 7 also, in case any terminology is > based on another OS. > > > On Jan 3, 10:56 pm, "Mo J. Al-Mughrabi" <mo.mughr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> By document root they mean apache public directory, aka htdocs >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jan 3, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Anthony Pearce <coden...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> > In Tutorial 2, I was instructed to make a templates directory. It is >> > located at: >> > C:\DjangoProjects\mysite\templates >> >> > Now again in Tutorial 3, section "Write views that actually do >> > something", I am given the instructions: >> > .... create a directory, somewhere on your filesystem, whose >> > contents Django can access. (Django runs as whatever user your server >> > runs.) Don't put them under your document root..... >> >> > I think the document who's root I cannot put them under is the >> > views.py document, as that's what I had been editing. It is located >> > at: >> > C:\DjangoProjects\mysite\polls\views.py >> >> > I guess my question is, where is the best place for this new templates >> > directory? Can I simply make a subdirectory in the templates >> > directory for the views.py template? For example, like this: >> > C:\DjangoProjects\mysite\templates\views\ >> >> > Sorry for a question with likely a quite obvious solution, but thanks >> > again for any assistance. >> >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "Django users" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit this group >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
