Render template located in a unregistered folder in Django

Question

On my site i have demo template in specific folder:

project_root
├── project
│   ├── design               # templates
│   │   ├── demo             # template folder
│   │   │   └── index.html   # template file
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── urls.py
│   └── wsgi.py
├── some_app
│   └── ...
└── manage.py

I have tried to use TemplateView to render my demo/index.html from specific url but Django fails to find my template, even if i add /project/design to TEMPLATE_DIRS or TEMPLATES .

I need to render template using demo/index.html string having templates in /project/design folder. How do i do that?

Answer 1

Add in the right template engine that you use, for example DjangoTemplate , this directory.

Eg ( settings.py file) :

from unipath import Path

BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).ancestor(2)

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
            BASE_DIR + '/project/design/',
        ],
        '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',
            ],
        },
    },
]

Check that BASE_DIR variable corresponds to the folder that contains all your apps.

After that,rend your template with :

return render(request, 'demo/index.html')

Best practice : Put your templates in project_root/templates/<app_name>/ or in templates/<app_name> folder of each apps.

Read this for more information about templates : Django - Templates