Hi Jeff,
I think Gladys is correct, the reason for your code finding the index
template, is because its probably looking for 'myapp/index.html'
instead of just 'index.html'
Im not really sure if you're also distinguishing between the project
template root and the app directory template dirs.
Generally this would be how the template directories would be layed out:
/whatever/templates
/whatever/myproject/myapp/templates
/whatever/myproject/mysecondapp/templates
First django looks in the templates set in your settings.py
(/whatever/templates) then, depending on the order in installed apps,
it looks at <app_dir>/templates
So when you try to extend just 'base.html' it tries
/whatever/templates/base.html,
/whatever/myproject/myapp/templates/base.html, /whatever/my.. etc.
regardless of wheter or not the template where you are including from
is in the same directory. So again, why your index.html is working and
extending base.html doesnt work is in my best guess, due to the fact
that your code was looking for 'myapp/index.html' and the template
tried to include just 'base.html', which you said was located in
'myapp'
Take note that if you do try to extend 'myapp/base.html' for the app
based template directories, it would actually look in
/whatever/myproject/myapp/templates/myapp/base.html, this might seem
confusing at first.
Hope this helps, Yuka
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Jeff Blaine <cjbla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gladys,
> On Thursday, April 14, 2011 4:12:29 PM UTC-4, gladys wrote:
> The root directory for your templates is in '/whatever/myproject', so
>>
>> of course it will look for your base.html here.
>> Now if your base is in another location, say "/whatever/myproject/
>> myapp/base.html", your extends should look like this:
>> {% extends "myapp/base.html" %}.
>
> First, thanks for the reply.
> It's finding my /myproject/myapp/index.html template (the one that calls
> "base.html"), so something clearly knows about where to find my templates,
> yet "extend" looks elsewhere.
> That is, if I make /myproject/myapp/index.html to be completely
> self-contained, it is found and loaded fine.
> If I change it to {% extend "base.html" %}, it can't find that referenced
> template.
>
> That seems broken to me.
> I tried your suggestion above (the other day, and again now) in
> /myproject/myapp/index.html
> {% extend "myapp/base.html" %}
>
> It does not work:
> Caught TemplateDoesNotExist while rendering: myapp/base.html
> ALSO... I changed the following from:
> TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
> '/myproject',
> )
>
> to:
> TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
> '/myproject/myapp',
> )
>
> Which then results in failure to find even /myproject/myapp/index.html
> TemplateDoesNotExist at /
>
>
>>
>> Best of Luck.
>>
>> --
>> Gladys
>> http://blog.bixly.com
>>
>>
>> On Apr 15, 3:56 am, Jeff Blaine <cjbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Django 1.3
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I can't seem to get around this. It appears that, the following
>> > "index.html" template in */whatever/myproject/myapp*
>> >
>> > {% extends "base.html %}
>> > <!-- stuff here -->
>> >
>> > Looks for base.html as /whatever/myproject/base.html instead
>> > of /whatever/myproject/myapp/base.html
>> >
>> > My TEMPLATE_DIRS is set as follows, and with this setting, the
>> > */whatever/myproject/myapp/index.html
>> > template is loaded fine* if I make it self-contained (not extending)
>> >
>> > TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
>> > '/whatever/myproject',
>> > )
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>
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