Thanks I solved it. Was looking up wrong directory because I followed the instructions to put the absolute path. If I put the relative path it works fine. Thanks for taking time to answer anyway. People are so kind! :0)
On Tuesday, 14 August 2012 14:54:45 UTC+1, ephan wrote: > > Have you checked the permissions of the directory and template > files? > run ls -l in the parent directory of the template folder and inside > the folder itself . > madala wrote: > > Have followed tutorial 2 instructions carefully. So far everything has > > worked as described in tutorials but cannot get django to load files > from > > my own template directory. Seems a very simple problem. > > > > here's the part of my settings.py: > > > > TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( > > '/home/madala/WebsiteCode/templates', > > "/home/madala/Website/templates", > > # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or > > "C:/www/django/templates". > > # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows. > > # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths. > > ) > > > > So I carried on and started tutorial 3 till I got halfway down and had > to > > do same thing but no matter what I try can't get Django to recognize my > > directories. > > > > Can anyone see where I am going wrong please? thanks in anticipation. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/-WksJy4qUkoJ. 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.
