customize project templates

[Terry Chia]

Hello, 

I am doing "Writing your first Django app, part 2" provided by Django 
Documentation part 2 
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial02/> and is stuck at 
customising your project's template.

I am trying to customise the project template by copying the base_site.html 
from the Django admin template directory in the source code of Django into 
the project directory. 

I am facing with this warning. I have attached my file below. Can someone 
help? 

My path for base_site.html is at mysite/templates/admin/base_site.html

?: (1_8.W001) The standalone TEMPLATE_* settings were deprecated in Django 
1.8 and the TEMPLATES dictionary takes precedence. You must put the values 
of the following settings into your default TEMPLATES dict: TEMPLATE_DIRS.



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"""
Django settings for mysite project.

Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 1.8.4.

For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/settings/

For the full list of settings and their values, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/settings/
"""

# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
import os

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))


# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/deployment/checklist/

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = 'wz8j*gp5#o^)(7e%hx=80_sgh!-y9^nr+b7i5r$q0n&zat9+pl'

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True

ALLOWED_HOSTS = []


# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'polls',
)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'mysite.urls'

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'mysite.wsgi.application'


# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
    }
}


# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Singapore'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True


# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

#Adding a template directory here
TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]

{% extends "admin/base.html" %} {% block title %}{{ title }} | {{ site_title|default:_('Django site admin') }}{% endblock %} {% block branding %}

Polls Administration

{% endblock %} {% block nav-global %}{% endblock %}