Thank you all. I will digest the replies when I have the time to properly focus back on the issue (it's obviously small, since I have a workaround in place by shoving base.html into the project root).
It still, regardless of solutions, even in light of the words shared in this thread (which I've only skimmed for now), makes no sense to me how it's "the right thing" that my index.html is found but base.html cannot be found just because it is referenced by "extend". I will have to decide for the time-being that there's some underlying good reason/concept that I just am not savvy to. You found index.html fine! It says in it to extend "base.html"! Find it in the same place you found index.html! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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.