I've been trying to get django to render a template I created. At first it said that the template does not exist, however once I fixed the error it is now adding characters to the path and not finding the template because of that.
The path should be:
C:\\Users\\ABC\\Desktop\\science_crowd\\Lightweight_Django\\placeholder\\home.html
However the error says that it cannot find:
C:\\Users\\Benjamin\\Desktop\\science_crowd\\Lightweight_Django\\placeholder\\:\\home.html
It added a colon and another backslash for no reason.
The settings for this project is as follows:
ALLOWED_HOSTS = os.environ.get('ALLOWED_HOSTS', '127.0.0.1').split(',')
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
settings.configure(
DEBUG = DEBUG,
SECRET_KEY = SECRET_KEY,
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ALLOWED_HOSTS,
ROOT_URLCONF = __name__,
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
),
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles'
),
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
"django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
],
},
},
],
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
),
STATIC_URL = '/static/',
)
The view that is trying to render the template:
def index(request):
example = reverse('placeholder', kwargs = {'width': 50, 'height': 50})
context = {
'example': request.build_absolute_uri(example)
}
dir = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')
return render(request, 'home.html', context = context)
Thank you so much for your help!
The DIRS
settings expects a list or tuple. Try:
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],