I did try this, and I tried again, but it still doesn't work. Do I need to do something extra like quit the server, and restart again? By the way I did try this too.
Now, I am totally lost. Thanks On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Vovk Donets <donets.vladi...@gmail.com>wrote: > You must specify in the TEMPLATE_DIRS path to the dir where templates were > placed, not abs path file > So > TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( > "/Users/xuchen81/Django/mysite/", > > ) > should work, coz' "In order to override one or more of them, first create > an admin directory in your project's templates directory. This can be any > of the directories you specified in > TEMPLATE_DIRS<http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#std:setting-TEMPLATE_DIRS> > ." > > 2011/1/17 Chen Xu <xuche...@gmail.com> > > Hi, Django group: >> I am floowing the tutorial 1 on Django site, which is a poll application >> I have problem with overriding the admin page >> I copied admin/base_site.html from (django/contrib/admin/templates) >> to /Users/xuchen81/Django/mysite/admin/base_site.html >> >> and add this line "/Users/xuchen81/Django/mysite/admin/base_site.html" >> to TEMPLATE_DIRS in my settings.py file. It looks like the following: >> >> TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( >> "/Users/xuchen81/Django/mysite/admin/base_site.html", >> ) >> >> but the admin is just doesn't use this file, it still uses the default >> base_site.html. >> >> Could anyone please help me? >> >> -- > *Vovk Donets* > python/django developer > > skype: suunbeeam > icq: 232490857 > mail: donets.vladi...@gmail.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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.