On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Christopher wrote:
> Martin
>
> Just to let you know, moving the templates directory to the root of my
> project did indeed work. I no longer get that exception. However, I
> would still like to know why django was telling me that the file does
> not exist when
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 20:23 -0700, Christopher wrote:
> would still like to know why django was telling me that the file does
> not exist when it clearly does.
some of django's error messages are misleading. 'Does not exist' often
means - 'does not compile' or 'cannot find'.
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Martin
Just to let you know, moving the templates directory to the root of my
project did indeed work. I no longer get that exception. However, I
would still like to know why django was telling me that the file does
not exist when it clearly does. I posted my virtual host config so if
you, or a
Sorry Chris, I was being a bit cryptic ...
Here is an excerpt from my settings.py
PROJECT_DIR = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__)).replace('\\','/')
# if templates are not found here look in app_name/templates
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'templates/').replace('\\','/'),)
Hi Martin
Thanks for this insight. I saw them placing templates outside the
project directory in the tutorial, so I thought that might be a common
thing to do. I am switching from php to python, so I'm learning a
lot. What you say does make sense from a SCM point of view. I am
assuming that mo
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 18:47 -0700, Christopher wrote:
> >From what I understand, the location of my templates is supposed to
> go
> in the TEMPLATE_DIRS block of the settings.py file. This directory is
> located in my home/foobar/, thus the /home/foobar/templates.
>
> Is there something wrong wit
It's a bit weird that you have your templates in your home folder.
I would expect them to be in your project's folder.
For example: /home/foobar/projects/yourproject/templates
If you were using some version control software like git you would want to
have everything that belongs to yout project i
>From what I understand, the location of my templates is supposed to go
in the TEMPLATE_DIRS block of the settings.py file. This directory is
located in my home/foobar/, thus the /home/foobar/templates.
Is there something wrong with this?
On Jun 5, 4:38 pm, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
> On 6/06/2011 6
On 6/06/2011 6:51am, Christopher wrote:
110 "/home/foobar/templates",
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OK. I have read many other accounts of this happening, and they were
always solved when the question asker correctly modified their
TEMPLATE_DIRS setting. None of these suggestions have worked for me.
The strange thing is that the template loads when using the Django web
server, but errors out when
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