Django server serving cached template pages

[Bryan Arguello]

I am on the second page of the blog tutorial and am trying to change the base-site.html template.  

I make a few small changes, set the permissions to 755, put it in

a subdirectory named 'admin' within a directory called 'template' inside of the project directory.  

I also add the template directory path to the TEMPLATE_DIRS variable

in settings.py and restart the server.  

After several hours of trying things suggested in different forums on this topic, I decided to just rename the original base_site.html in django/contrib/admin/templates/admin and create a blank "blank_site.html".  

After doing this, one would expect to get a blank page if the templates in TEMPLATE_DIRS were not found.  However, I am getting the same "Django administration" page.  Also, I did go into the manage.py shell and check TEMPLATE_DIRS: it is set to the correct directory.  I am starting to think this is some kind of Django server cache issue (tried clearing browser cache).

I can see that many new-comers to Django have come across this issue and none of the suggestions for these users seem to work.  However, I have never seen anyone mention a cache being the issue.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Collin Anderson]

Hi,

Yes, apparently many people get tripped up on this step. Is this django1.7?

create a blank "blank_site.html".  <- I assume you mean create a blank base_site.html?

I assume this is with manage.py runserver? (If it's apache/uwsgi/gunicorn, you need to reload the program when changing the setting.)

Caching should only be an issue if the cached template loader is installed, which it isn't by default.

Collin