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Asked: 2026-06-18T08:43:14+00:00

According to the documentation , django should load templates automatically from my app if

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According to the documentation, django should load templates automatically from my app if i have a folder named ‘templates’ in the root dir of the app.

I’ve added my app

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    # 'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
    'django.contrib.admindocs',
    # Use email as username https://github.com/dabapps/django-email-as-username
     'emailusernames',
     'purchaseapp' # this is my app
)

I’ve created a templates folder

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and i’ve setup urlpatterns to use the admin as the login page

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Examples:
    # url(r'^$', 'timely.views.home', name='home'),
    # url(r'^timely/', include('timely.foo.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
    url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'^$', hello),
    url(r'^accounts/logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout'),
    url(r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login', {'template_name': 'admin/login.html'}),
    url(r'^accounts/$', 'django.views.generic.simple.redirect_to', {'url': '/'}),
    url(r'^accounts/profile/$', 'django.views.generic.simple.redirect_to', {'url': '/'}),
)

i overwrote base_site.html but i can’t see my customization, which i see if it add the folder to TEMPLATE_DIRS

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    "/Users/nicola/Documents/Aptana Studio 3 Workspace/timely/purchaseapp/templates",
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
)

What am i doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem was that probably django stops searching when it founds a valid template so my app had to come first than the contrib admin

    INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    # 'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'purchaseapp', #this is my app
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
    'django.contrib.admindocs',
    # Use email as username https://github.com/dabapps/django-email-as-username
     'emailusernames',
)
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