How to add my Templates folder to TEMPLATE_DIRS

[Kishan Mehta]

Hello all,

> I want to customise how admin page looks 

> I have my template folder in my application folder at C:\Users\kishan\Django_App\polls\templates\admin

> In settings.py I have added TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'C:\Users\kishan\Django_App\polls\templates')] .

> Changes I have made to base_site.html is not reflecting in admin page. 

Please help

[Mike Dewhirst]

On 18/01/2015 5:01 PM, Kishan Mehta wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> > I want to customise how admin page looks
>
> > I have my template folder in my application folder
> at C:\Users\kishan\Django_App\polls\templates\admin
>
> > In settings.py I have added TEMPLATE_DIRS =
> [os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'C:\Users\kishan\Django_App\polls\templates')] .

You template dirs will fail if your BASE_DIR has any path value at all.
The following is what you really want ...

# if templates are not found here look in app_name/templates
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates/').replace('\\','/'),
)

... Then in BASE_DIR/templates make a dir /admin and copy the
../site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/<whatever>.html
template you want to change into your project.

It should end up in BASE_DIR/templates/admin/<whatever>.html

As indicated in the comment line above, if Django doesn't find the
template it is looking for in your project's ../admin dir it will look
in its own template dir.

>
> > Changes I have made to base_site.html is not reflecting in admin page.
>
> Please help
>

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