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Django template and version

I searched the web for the latest version of Django and it is 2.0.6 on the official Django documentation. But the versions that are given on the official page are just 2.0, 2.1, 1.9 etc. So I was just wondering if the documentation for 2.0 is for all version like 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7 etc. Because there is no documentation for version 2.0.6. But again the version 2.0 is different and it is installable with pip.

Earlier I was using Django 2.0.6 and I had a problem with the template. I first started my project with name web and then made a app named music. Inside that I made a template directory and inside that another music folder and placed my index.html file inside that. so overall the path like this
web/music/template/music/index.html. Now I was using render from django.shortcuts.

I referenced the index.html file as music/index.html in the view.py file in music directory. But it is unable to find the file and it is just showing error.

I thought this could be a version problem.

2 Answers
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Your folder structure should be like this:

music/ <-- higher level folder
|-- myproject/ <-- django project folder
| |-- __init__.py
| |-- settings.py
| |-- urls.py
| |-- wsgi.py
|-- templates <-- Templates folder
| |-- music
| | |-- index.html
|-- static <-- Static folder
| |-- css
| |-- js
| |-- images
| +-- manage.py
+-- venv/ <-- virtual environment folder


Your project folder, app folder and Template folder should be together with your manage.py.

You also need to add this to your settings.py

TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates")], <-- add this line
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]


views.py

def index(request):
return render(request, "music/index.html", ) <-- Dont forget this here music is your folder's name


Have you added your template directory to the settings file?

settings

As the documentation says:

Let’s say you’re trying to override the templates for a third-party application called blog, which provides the templates blog/post.html and blog/list.html. The relevant settings for your project would look like:

import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
INSTALLED_APPS = [ ..., 'blog', ..., ]
TEMPLATES = [ { 'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates', 'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')], 'APP_DIRS': True, ... }, ]


The TEMPLATES setting and BASE_DIR will already exist if you created your project using the default project template. The setting that needs to be modified is DIRS.

These settings assume you have a templatesdirectory in the root of your project. To override the templates for the blog app, create a folder in the templates directory, and add the template files to that folder:

templates/
blog/
list.html
post.html


The template loader first looks for templates in the DIRS directory. When the views in the blog app ask for the blog/post.html and blog/list.htmltemplates, the loader will return the files you just created.

So, in order to add your own template folder, you should modify the DIRS setting.

DIRS

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