[Answer]-Django Templates: How does it decide where to load a template?

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Django will look to your settings.py for how to load templates, and the order in which it should try to load templates. It’s likely that you haven’t configured django to look for templates in mysite/templates.

There’s a setting called TEMPLATE_DIRS which is a list of absolute paths for your template folders. So in your settings.py file, try something like below. Read my comments to see what each line does.

# create a variable that stores the absolute path to your project's root directory
# you might have something like this already defined at the top of your settings.py
BASE_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), os.pardir))

# this is the default value for TEMPLATE_LOADERS
# which says to look at the `TEMPLATE_DIRS` variable, and then in each of your app's subdirectories for templates
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ('django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
                    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader')

# the special sauce. tell django to look at the "templates" folder
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'), )
👤Sohan Jain

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