First solution:
These settings
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
os.path.join(SETTINGS_PATH, ‘templates’),
)
mean that Django will look at the templates from templates/ directory under your project.
Assuming your Django project is located at /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/ then with your settings django will look for the templates under /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/templates/
So in that case we want to move our templates to be structured like this:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/templates/template1.html
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/templates/template2.html
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/templates/template3.html
Second solution:
If that still doesn’t work and assuming that you have the apps configured in settings.py like this:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
‘appname1’,
‘appname2’,
‘appname3’,
)
By default Django will load the templates under templates/ directory under every installed apps. So with your directory structure, we want to move our templates to be like this:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/appname1/templates/template1.html
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/appname2/templates/template2.html
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/appname3/templates/template3.html
SETTINGS_PATH may not be defined by default. In which case, you will want to define it (in settings.py):
import os
SETTINGS_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
Find this tuple:
import os
SETTINGS_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
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’,
],
},
},
]
You need to add to ‘DIRS’ the string
os.path.join(SETTINGS_PATH, ‘templates’)
So altogether you need:
TEMPLATES = [
{
‘BACKEND’: ‘django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates’,
‘DIRS’: [os.path.join(SETTINGS_PATH, ‘templates’)],
‘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’,
],
},
},
]