Template File not found

January 7, 2022

So I am trying to open a template from…

But the template file is not shown as below…

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render


# Create your views here.
def index(request):
    return render(request, "home/index.html")

Weird thing is that my webpage still works, and when I delete that function it does not.

Here is some additional Info…

settinbgs.py

# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'project_long_page',
    'about',
    'home',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

home/urls.py

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path("", views.index, name="index"),
]

>Solution :

Your templates folder should be within your app folder home (under about), otherwise Django won’t find it. Check out https://django-project-skeleton.readthedocs.io/en/latest/structure.html for the proper file structure. My guess is the same could be said for the other folders withing your templates folder. You can have a templates folder in your root, but I don’t think this is what you will need in your case.