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Asked: 2026-05-24T09:01:25+00:00

Running through the djangobook (ver 2). I had a little trouble with template loading;

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Running through the djangobook (ver 2). I had a little trouble with template loading; my relevant filestructure:

testSite/urls.py

testSite/books/views.py  
testSite/books/templates/

testSite/contact/views.py  
testSite/contact/templates/

When I set-up a view for the books chapter (chap. 5), I was able to create a url in urls.py, point it to a view function in testSite/books/views, but when I called the template from that view function, I did not have to specify a directory – django knew it was in testSite/books/templates.

I tried doing the same thing for the contact form chapter (chap. 7), but this time it would not load the template – I had to go back to settings.py and explicitly place testSite/contact/templates into TEMPLATE_DIRS:

# testSite/settings.py
# ....
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    '/home/chris/djcode/testSite/templates',
    '/home/chris/djcode/testSite/contact/templates',
)

So – is there an obvious explanation as to why I need to point django to the contact/templates folder, but not the books/templates folder?

(If not, I can post more code – trying to keep it short)

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  1. Editorial Team

    You either did not add the contact application to your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py OR you are trying to load the template from one application inside another application. The TEMPLATE_DIRS is where to look if it doesn’t find the template inside the same application as the views are loading from.

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