This is what I do ...
in settings.py
# this is the directory containing settings.py
PROJECT_DIR = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
# if templates are not found here look in app_name/templates
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'templates/'),)
This makes my templates directory a sub-dir of the project dir and
inside that there are other sub-dirs one for each app and one for the admin.
I don't really need one for the admin because django knows where the
admin templates live inside the django tree.
However, there is one admin template I override so that I can
personalise the admin. That is called base_site.html. It is ...
PROJECT_DIR/templates/admin/base_site.html
It is the only admin template I change and it only contains ...
{% extends "admin/base.html" %}
{# admin/base.html is in
site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin #}
{% load i18n %}
{% block title %}{{ title }} | {% trans 'My site admin' %}{% endblock %}
{% block branding %}
<h1 id="site-name">{% trans 'My administration' %}</h1>
{% endblock %}
Note the comment which indicates that it inherits from the django tree
of admin templates.
How does django know to look at my base_site.html while it is processing
the django tree of templates?
The answer is simple and can be found in your settings.py file here ...
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
)
If the filesystem loader is ahead of the app_directories loader, django
looks in your project templates before its own. Here is the doc
reference ...
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#loader-types
Hope this helps
Mike
On 18/01/2011 12:26pm, Chen Xu wrote:
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
<mailto: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 <mailto: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?
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