my mysite/templates/admin/base_site.html is ignored (tutorial unclear?)

Andreas Ka

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I am working through https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial02

so far all went fine - but now templates changes just don't work.

I think there must be a flaw in that tutorial, something missing,

or something different in django 1.7.1 ?

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial02/#customize-the-admin-look-and-feel

my versions:

python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"

1.7.1

python --version

Python 2.7.3

SYMPTOM:

my changes in

mysite/templates/admin/base_site.html

are simply ignored.

These are my files:

mysite# tree

.

├── db.sqlite3

├── manage.py

├── mysite

│ ├── __init__.py

│ ├── settings.py

│ ├── urls.py

│ └── wsgi.py

├── polls

│ ├── admin.py

│ ├── __init__.py

│ ├── migrations

│ │ ├── 0001_initial.py

│ │ └── __init__.py

│ ├── models.py

│ ├── tests.py

│ └── views.py

└── templates

└── admin

└── base_site.html

mysite/settings.py:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]

Whatever I do, the page

http://myserver:8000/admin/polls/question/

still keeps the old title 'Django administration'

I want to understand how templates work, because I need them for my real project.

Thanks a lot!

RLF_UNIQUE

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Obviously you've restarted the server and refreshed the page in such a way to ensure it's not a caching issue ?

Andreas Ka

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thanks for your answer.

yes, I just tried that. Same result.

By now, I have understood much more about the templates.

But still, for the admin pages

mysite/templates/admin/base_site.html

doesn't work yet.

I have actually found more errors in the tutorial:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial06/#adding-a-background-image

didn't work until I put a <body> tag into polls/templates/polls/index.html

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial05/#testing-our-new-view

these tests all come up with one or the other assertion error

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Obviously you've restarted the server and refreshed the page in such a way to ensure it's not a caching issue ?

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Artie

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Are you sure about correct path to your templates in views?

Show your view code

понедельник, 17 ноября 2014 г., 5:04:53 UTC+2 пользователь Andreas Ka написал:

Andreas Ka

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> Show your view code

The tutorial did not create any view.py for the admin pages

See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial02/#customize-the-admin-look-and-feel

We copied from the Django source files these two into:

/mysite/templates/admin/base_site.html

and

/mysite/templates/admin/index.html

and in https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial02/#customize-the-admin-change-list

edited:

admin.py

from django.contrib import admin

# Register your models here.

from django.contrib import admin

from polls.models import Choice, Question

class ChoiceInline(admin.TabularInline):

model = Choice

extra = 3

class QuestionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

fieldsets = [

(None, {'fields': ['question_text']}),

('Date information', {'fields': ['pub_date'], 'classes': ['collapse']}),

]

inlines = [ChoiceInline]

list_display = ('question_text', 'pub_date', 'was_published_recently')

list_filter = ['pub_date']

search_fields = ['question_text']

admin.site.register(Question, QuestionAdmin)

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Are you sure about correct path to your templates in views?

Show your view code

понедельник, 17 ноября 2014 г., 5:04:53 UTC+2 пользователь Andreas Ka написал:
thanks for your answer.

yes, I just tried that. Same result.

By now, I have understood much more about the templates.

But still, for the admin pages
mysite/templates/admin/base_site.html
doesn't work yet.

...

Collin Anderson

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Nov 20, 2014, 9:24:14 PM11/20/14

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Hi,

Do other templates work in that folder?

Collin

Andreas Ka

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I don't know.

How to test that?

The things I have done were these:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial02/#customizing-your-project-s-templates

mkdir templates

mkdir templates/admin

cp /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base_site.html templates/admin/

ls -l templates/admin/base_site.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 338 Nov 21 18:50 templates/admin/base_site.html

(and www-data is member of that group)

nano templates/admin/base_site.html -> changed it to what I want to see

nano mysite/settings.py --> TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]

restarted the server.

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donarb

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Check your settings file, are there two TEMPLATE_DIRS variables defined? Possibly you created one in your edit, but Django already has an empty one defined. If your edit was placed before the one that is already defined, it would end up empty, hence no override.

Andreas Ka

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Thanks for your help.

I really think there is something wrong with that part of the tutorial. A small thing, but wrong.

> Check your settings file,
> are there two TEMPLATE_DIRS variables defined?

Nope.

This is where I placed it:

...

import os

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))

TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]

...

just tried this:

import mysite.settings as settings

print settings.TEMPLATE_DIRS

['D:\\Programming\\eclipse\\mysite\\templates']

so no: not empty.

Why is my file templates/admin/base_site.html never called

when I open http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ or http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/polls/ ?

Thanks.

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Collin Anderson

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Nov 25, 2014, 8:33:02 AM11/25/14

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Hi,

Wow. Everything you've shown looks right.

Here's something to try: replace base_site.html with a completely empty file. That should cause the admin page to be completely blank.

If that works, could you post a snippet of where you're changing the template? Are you changing the <title> and expecting the <h1> to be different?

Collin

donarb

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Nov 25, 2014, 9:51:27 AM11/25/14

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Yea, can we see your base_site.html?

Marc Moncrief

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I've been going through the tutorial and had the same problem. The docs say

"Create a templates directory in your project directory. "

I don't know if this will apply to you, but I thought that meant to put it in the poll directory. They mean to put it in the mysite directory. I made that change and my template changes started to be applied.

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I am using Debian 7 and Python 2.7, Django version 1.7

Reading the Tutorial on the exactly same page : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial02/

The result is our admin template completely ignored.

Bryan Arguello

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Have you solved this problem, Andreas? I am having the same issue and have done

everything that the tutorial described as well as everything that people on this thread

have suggested.

Collin Anderson

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Hi,

To be clear, you should have this setting:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]

and in your mysite/templates/admin/base_site.html you should have something like:

{% block branding %}

<h1 id="site-name"><a href="{% url 'admin:index' %}">Polls Administration</a></h1>

{% endblock %}

Does that all look right?

Thanks,

Collin

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Try this:

mysite# tree

.

├── db.sqlite3

├── manage.py

├── mysite

│ ├── __init__.py

│ ├── settings.py

│ ├── urls.py

│ └── wsgi.py

├── polls

├── admin.py

├── __init__.py

├── migrations

│ ├── 0001_initial.py

│ └── __init__.py

├── models.py

├── tests.py

└── views.py

└── templates

└── admin

└── base_site.html

woodz

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Aloha Andreas Ka,

have you been able to get this to work? I am currently going through the version 1.9 and facing the same issue. Is the suggestion of Marc Moncrief a way to go? Did you go for your own solution and would you mind to share?
Thanks a lot, woodz

Chris Bartos

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I'm going to attach my 'mysite' project using Django 1.7 where customizing templates/admin/base_site.html actually works.

You can compare what you did wrong with what I did to get it to work.

Disclaimer: I actually did everything the tutorial said to do. So, I'm pretty sure the tutorial actually works.

mysite.zip

Luis Zárate

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Sory for not answer before, but I think I could help.

First you need to know how django find the templates, so take a look template loaders

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/templates/api/#django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader

There are two default loaders (filesystem and app )

['django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
 'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader']

so take a look https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/settings/#template-loaders

So is important the app order.

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Amar Zamoum

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I just had the same problem, and i realized that i had the templates file in the wrong "mysite" folder. It is easy to confuse the two, so for whoever has the same problem, just check where exactly you have put the "template/admin" folders, because in the tutorial it says to put inside the folder that contains the manage.py file.

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