Customizing your project's templates

[Sheharyar Hamayun]

Ok, so i've copied the base_site html to lotus/pollapp/mysite/polls/templates/admin . I've opened the html file in a text editor and changed

 <h1 id="site-name">{% trans 'Django administration' %}</h1>   to

<h1 id="site-name">{% trans 'Pollapp' %}</h1>

However this change doesn't show on the website. My Template DIRS is:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (

    'lotus/pollapp/mysite/polls/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.

)

I've restarted the dev server and refreshed the website many times, but still no change.

Any help with what i'm doing wrong?

[Leonardo Giordani]

I think that you are missing the absolute path part of the code comment

    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.

This means that you cannot use 'lotus/...'

Usually you use code like

ABSOLUTE_PATH = '%s/' %(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(locals()['__file__'])).replace('\\', '/'))

at the beginning of your settings.py file. Then you can write

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (

    os.path.join(ABSOLUTE_PATH, 'lotus/pollapp/mysite/polls/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.

)

Remember that settings.py is a Python module, so you can use any valid Python code.

Let me know if you succeed.

Cheers,

Leo

Leonardo Giordani

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2013/10/21 Sheharyar Hamayun <sheharyar....@gmail.com>

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[Sheharyar Hamayun]

Hey

Yes, thank you. It worked!

Btw sorry for the late reply, my previous 'thank you' reply didn't seem to go through it seems.