On May 7, 4:37 am, Andrew Burns <erebus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Django newbie here. I am learning by following the Django book. All
> is good until I try to enable the admin interface (on v1.1.1) and I
> get the following error:
> TemplateDoesNotExist at /admin/
> admin/login.html
>
> So I did some poking around and changed my TEMPLATE_DIRS to the
> following (which I don't think was the right way to do it anyway):
> import os.path #import so we can use magic for the template import
> TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
> os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
> 'templates').replace('\
> \','/'),
>
> '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/admin/templates/',
> )
>
> When I do that I get:
> TemplateSyntaxError at /admin/
> 'adminmedia' is not a valid tag library: Could not load template
> library from django.templatetags.adminmedia, No module named
> adminmedia
>
> This is a 'vanilla' ubuntu django install (I didn't pull from SVN) so
> I am hoping that this is a well-known issue, I read the comments on
> the book site and none appeared to be this issue.
>
> Can someone give me some pointers?
>
> Thanks in advance.
Are you sure you have added 'django.contrib.admin' to the
INSTALLED_APPS tuple?
With that, you shouldn't need to hack the template path.
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