Re: New User Stuck on Tutorial Part 2
Thanks, Mike... I've got some studying to do! :)
On 05/10/2010 11:47 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
On 11/05/2010 4:04pm, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
On 11/05/2010 3:42pm, Old Davy wrote:
On 05/10/2010 08:18 PM, Shawn Milochik wrote:
Exactly what directory is your copied template in? It's most likely
not in the right place.
Ensure that you have a template dir that your settings knows about,
and that template dir has a subdirectory called 'admin' where that
file is placed.
Shawn
That would make the most sense, and that would be my working
assumption.
But I can't for the life of me see where the disconnect is.
this is the string that's in the TEMPLATE_DIRS section of my
settings.py
file:
"/home/llanitedave/Development/djangoProjects/django1.1Training/mysite/admin/base_site.html"
You want a directory rather than a file (base_site.html) for
TEMPLATE_DIRS
This is mine ...
# if templates are not found here look in app_name/templates
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT,
'templates').replace('\\','/'),)
This puts my templates directory in the same dir as my settings.py file.
Inside it I have a sub-dir for each application for which I want
templates. For example, in one of them I have ...
../templates/admin/base_site.html
Which contains ...
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}
{% block title %}{{ title }} | {% trans 'Mysite site admin' %}{%
endblock %}
{% block branding %}
{% trans 'Mysite administration' %}
{% endblock %}
... and which turns Django Admin into Mysite admin. However, the
"base.html" which it extends is actually in ../templates
If I wanted Mysite base_site.html to extend the real Django base.html I
would have to put ... {% extends "admin/base.html" %}
Just realised I could have confused you a little.
So
You can extend anything you want to specifically nominate but if you
just nominate a bare filename the way I do with base.html in ...
mysite/templates/admin/base_site.html
... base.html has to exist in TEMPLATE_DIRS (mysite/templates)
If you want to extend "admin/base.html" from the above base_site.html
then Django looks first in ...
TEMPLATES_DIR/admin
... and if it doesn't find it then it looks in
site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin
Mike
HTH
Mike
That's exactly the path that my directories show, including my
idiosyncratic upper case letters.
I did find the file that my poll app is referencing. Turns out it
was in
my '/usr/local/lib/python2.6... path instead of my home directory. So
when I modified THAT file, it used my changes. However, that still
doesn't help, as it's not using the file that I copied to my local
directory.
I suppose I can play with a few more directories and see what
happens...
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Re: New User Stuck on Tutorial Part 2
On 11/05/2010 4:04pm, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
On 11/05/2010 3:42pm, Old Davy wrote:
On 05/10/2010 08:18 PM, Shawn Milochik wrote:
Exactly what directory is your copied template in? It's most likely
not in the right place.
Ensure that you have a template dir that your settings knows about,
and that template dir has a subdirectory called 'admin' where that
file is placed.
Shawn
That would make the most sense, and that would be my working assumption.
But I can't for the life of me see where the disconnect is.
this is the string that's in the TEMPLATE_DIRS section of my settings.py
file:
"/home/llanitedave/Development/djangoProjects/django1.1Training/mysite/admin/base_site.html"
You want a directory rather than a file (base_site.html) for TEMPLATE_DIRS
This is mine ...
# if templates are not found here look in app_name/templates
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT,
'templates').replace('\\','/'),)
This puts my templates directory in the same dir as my settings.py file.
Inside it I have a sub-dir for each application for which I want
templates. For example, in one of them I have ...
../templates/admin/base_site.html
Which contains ...
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}
{% block title %}{{ title }} | {% trans 'Mysite site admin' %}{%
endblock %}
{% block branding %}
{% trans 'Mysite administration' %}
{% endblock %}
... and which turns Django Admin into Mysite admin. However, the
"base.html" which it extends is actually in ../templates
If I wanted Mysite base_site.html to extend the real Django base.html I
would have to put ... {% extends "admin/base.html" %}
Just realised I could have confused you a little.
So
You can extend anything you want to specifically nominate but if you
just nominate a bare filename the way I do with base.html in ...
mysite/templates/admin/base_site.html
... base.html has to exist in TEMPLATE_DIRS (mysite/templates)
If you want to extend "admin/base.html" from the above base_site.html
then Django looks first in ...
TEMPLATES_DIR/admin
... and if it doesn't find it then it looks in
site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin
Mike
HTH
Mike
That's exactly the path that my directories show, including my
idiosyncratic upper case letters.
I did find the file that my poll app is referencing. Turns out it was in
my '/usr/local/lib/python2.6... path instead of my home directory. So
when I modified THAT file, it used my changes. However, that still
doesn't help, as it's not using the file that I copied to my local
directory.
I suppose I can play with a few more directories and see what happens...
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Re: New User Stuck on Tutorial Part 2
On 11/05/2010 4:18pm, Old Davy wrote:
Thank you, Mike. That DID work!
So, if I have a directory that contains the /admin/base_site.html, all I
have to do is specify the containing directory.
I'll need to study the actual string you used a little more closely once
I get more familiar with the concepts. I can see how that would give you
some added flexibility, but I'm not quite grokking the details yet.
OK - here is more room for confusion ...
In my settings.py ...
PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)).replace('\\','/')
This is Python for getting the current directory path to the file in
which the above code appears. Since it is in settings.py it returns my
PROJECT_ROOT. The replace() just makes it cross-platform because I work
in both Windows and Linux.
What follows is also in settings.py and is what makes what I said in my
previous email true. Notice the comment? If filesystem loader appeared
*after* the app_directories loader my previous email would have taken
you right to the fairies at the end of the garden path.
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
# filesystem ahead of app_directories looks in project before django
'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source',
'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source',
'django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source',
Mike
Still, at least I can continue the tutorial without that "mired in the
mud" feeling. Thank you very much!!!
On 05/10/2010 11:04 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
On 11/05/2010 3:42pm, Old Davy wrote:
On 05/10/2010 08:18 PM, Shawn Milochik wrote:
Exactly what directory is your copied template in? It's most likely
not in the right place.
Ensure that you have a template dir that your settings knows about,
and that template dir has a subdirectory called 'admin' where that
file is placed.
Shawn
That would make the most sense, and that would be my working assumption.
But I can't for the life of me see where the disconnect is.
this is the string that's in the TEMPLATE_DIRS section of my settings.py
file:
"/home/llanitedave/Development/djangoProjects/django1.1Training/mysite/admin/base_site.html"
You want a directory rather than a file (base_site.html) for
TEMPLATE_DIRS
This is mine ...
# if templates are not found here look in app_name/templates
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT,
'templates').replace('\\','/'),)
This puts my templates directory in the same dir as my settings.py file.
Inside it I have a sub-dir for each application for which I want
templates. For example, in one of them I have ...
../templates/admin/base_site.html
Which contains ...
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}
{% block title %}{{ title }} | {% trans 'Mysite site admin' %}{%
endblock %}
{% block branding %}
{% trans 'Mysite administration' %}
{% endblock %}
... and which turns Django Admin into Mysite admin. However, the
"base.html" which it extends is actually in ../templates
If I wanted Mysite base_site.html to extend the real Django base.html
I would have to put ... {% extends "admin/base.html" %}
HTH
Mike
That's exactly the path that my directories show, including my
idiosyncratic upper case letters.
I did find the file that my poll app is referencing. Turns out it was in
my '/usr/local/lib/python2.6... path instead of my home directory. So
when I modified THAT file, it used my changes. However, that still
doesn't help, as it's not using the file that I copied to my local
directory.
I suppose I can play with a few more directories and see what happens...
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Re: New User Stuck on Tutorial Part 2
Thank you, Mike. That DID work!
So, if I have a directory that contains the /admin/base_site.html, all I
have to do is specify the containing directory.
I'll need to study the actual string you used a little more closely once
I get more familiar with the concepts. I can see how that would give
you some added flexibility, but I'm not quite grokking the details yet.
Still, at least I can continue the tutorial without that "mired in the
mud" feeling. Thank you very much!!!
On 05/10/2010 11:04 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
On 11/05/2010 3:42pm, Old Davy wrote:
On 05/10/2010 08:18 PM, Shawn Milochik wrote:
Exactly what directory is your copied template in? It's most likely
not in the right place.
Ensure that you have a template dir that your settings knows about,
and that template dir has a subdirectory called 'admin' where that
file is placed.
Shawn
That would make the most sense, and that would be my working assumption.
But I can't for the life of me see where the disconnect is.
this is the string that's in the TEMPLATE_DIRS section of my settings.py
file:
"/home/llanitedave/Development/djangoProjects/django1.1Training/mysite/admin/base_site.html"
You want a directory rather than a file (base_site.html) for
TEMPLATE_DIRS
This is mine ...
# if templates are not found here look in app_name/templates
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT,
'templates').replace('\\','/'),)
This puts my templates directory in the same dir as my settings.py file.
Inside it I have a sub-dir for each application for which I want
templates. For example, in one of them I have ...
../templates/admin/base_site.html
Which contains ...
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}
{% block title %}{{ title }} | {% trans 'Mysite site admin' %}{%
endblock %}
{% block branding %}
{% trans 'Mysite administration' %}
{% endblock %}
... and which turns Django Admin into Mysite admin. However, the
"base.html" which it extends is actually in ../templates
If I wanted Mysite base_site.html to extend the real Django base.html
I would have to put ... {% extends "admin/base.html" %}
HTH
Mike
That's exactly the path that my directories show, including my
idiosyncratic upper case letters.
I did find the file that my poll app is referencing. Turns out it was in
my '/usr/local/lib/python2.6... path instead of my home directory. So
when I modified THAT file, it used my changes. However, that still
doesn't help, as it's not using the file that I copied to my local
directory.
I suppose I can play with a few more directories and see what happens...
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Re: New User Stuck on Tutorial Part 2
On 11/05/2010 3:42pm, Old Davy wrote:
On 05/10/2010 08:18 PM, Shawn Milochik wrote:
Exactly what directory is your copied template in? It's most likely
not in the right place.
Ensure that you have a template dir that your settings knows about,
and that template dir has a subdirectory called 'admin' where that
file is placed.
Shawn
That would make the most sense, and that would be my working assumption.
But I can't for the life of me see where the disconnect is.
this is the string that's in the TEMPLATE_DIRS section of my settings.py
file:
"/home/llanitedave/Development/djangoProjects/django1.1Training/mysite/admin/base_site.html"
You want a directory rather than a file (base_site.html) for TEMPLATE_DIRS
This is mine ...
# if templates are not found here look in app_name/templates
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'templates').replace('\\','/'),)
This puts my templates directory in the same dir as my settings.py file.
Inside it I have a sub-dir for each application for which I want
templates. For example, in one of them I have ...
../templates/admin/base_site.html
Which contains ...
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}
{% block title %}{{ title }} | {% trans 'Mysite site admin' %}{% endblock %}
{% block branding %}
{% trans 'Mysite administration' %}
{% endblock %}
... and which turns Django Admin into Mysite admin. However, the
"base.html" which it extends is actually in ../templates
If I wanted Mysite base_site.html to extend the real Django base.html I
would have to put ... {% extends "admin/base.html" %}
HTH
Mike
That's exactly the path that my directories show, including my
idiosyncratic upper case letters.
I did find the file that my poll app is referencing. Turns out it was in
my '/usr/local/lib/python2.6... path instead of my home directory. So
when I modified THAT file, it used my changes. However, that still
doesn't help, as it's not using the file that I copied to my local
directory.
I suppose I can play with a few more directories and see what happens...
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Re: New User Stuck on Tutorial Part 2
On 05/10/2010 08:18 PM, Shawn Milochik wrote: Exactly what directory is your copied template in? It's most likely not in the right place. Ensure that you have a template dir that your settings knows about, and that template dir has a subdirectory called 'admin' where that file is placed. Shawn That would make the most sense, and that would be my working assumption. But I can't for the life of me see where the disconnect is. this is the string that's in the TEMPLATE_DIRS section of my settings.py file: "/home/llanitedave/Development/djangoProjects/django1.1Training/mysite/admin/base_site.html" That's exactly the path that my directories show, including my idiosyncratic upper case letters. I did find the file that my poll app is referencing. Turns out it was in my '/usr/local/lib/python2.6... path instead of my home directory. So when I modified THAT file, it used my changes. However, that still doesn't help, as it's not using the file that I copied to my local directory. I suppose I can play with a few more directories and see what happens... -- 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.
Re: New User Stuck on Tutorial Part 2
Exactly what directory is your copied template in? It's most likely not in the right place. Ensure that you have a template dir that your settings knows about, and that template dir has a subdirectory called 'admin' where that file is placed. Shawn -- 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.
New User Stuck on Tutorial Part 2
Using Ubuntu 10.04...
I'm just starting out on django and going through the tutorials.
Everything installed, got the polls working in parts 1 and 2 of the
tutorial, and I think I'm sailing. Then I get to the bottom of Part
2, to the section "Customize the admin look and feel".
In settings.py I followed the instructions:
"Now copy the template admin/base_site.html from within the default
Django admin template directory (django/contrib/admin/templates) into
an admin subdirectory of whichever directory you're using in
TEMPLATE_DIRS. For example, if your TEMPLATE_DIRS includes "/home/
my_username/mytemplates", as above, then copy django/contrib/admin/
templates/admin/base_site.html to /home/my_username/mytemplates/admin/
base_site.html. Don't forget that admin subdirectory.
Then, just edit the file and replace the generic Django text with your
own site's name as you see fit."
I changed the title in my local admin folder to this:
{% block title %}{{ title }} | {% trans "Dave's Tutorials" %}{%
endblock %}
{% block branding %}
{% trans "Dave's Tutorials" %}
{% endblock %}
Nothing happened. My page still reads "Django Administration.
I stopped the server, ran syncdb, and restarted the server. No
change.
Thinking that somehow TEMPLATE_DIRS wasn't registering the new
location, I went back to the default director, which is in the /home/
local/share... directory, renamed the original and edited a new
base_site.html as I had done in my tutorial directory.
As before, ran syncdb and restarted the server.
Still no change. So now I'm stuck. Why is settings.py ignoring both
the local and the default files? Or is the default file someplace
that I haven't found yet?
Thanks for any advice you can give!
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