django 1.9 and registration/login.html

Question

I'm working on a django 1.9 project.

With Django 1.7.7, login functionnalities was working, but now all the time I have : registration/login.html : Template Does Not Exist

The templates login.html, logout.html are present in 'webgui/template/registration/' and I didn't modified them.

Here some of my settings.py :

INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'webgui',
]

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]

ROOT_URLCONF = 'project.urls'

TEMPLATES = [
{
    'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
    'DIRS': [],
    'APP_DIRS': True,
    'OPTIONS': {
        'context_processors': [
            'django.template.context_processors.debug',
            'django.template.context_processors.request',
            'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
            'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
        ],
    },
},
]

DATABASES = {
'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
    'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'NCIS.db'),
}
}

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/login/'

LOGOUT_URL = '/logout/'


DIRS = (
    join(BASE_DIR, 'webgui/template/registration'),
    join(BASE_DIR, 'webgui/template/')
)

And my urls.py :

from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.views import login, logout
import webgui.views

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
    url(r'^$', login, name='login.html'),
    url(r'^login/$', login, name='login.html'),
    url(r'^logout/$', logout, name='logout.html'),

    url(r'^homepage/$', webgui.views.homepage),
    url(r'^addproject/$', webgui.views.addproject)
]

What's wrong? I checked the Django docs, but that's the default behaviour.

Answer 1

This question appears first in search engine with searching for registration/login.html : Template Does Not Exist

So for those coming through search engine, please note that this template doesn't come by default with Django. If you haven't created it, that's why you are getting this error

Here is how you can create a simple one https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/tutorial/2016/06/27/how-to-use-djangos-built-in-login-system.html

Answer 2

Try to put your template dirs paths in DIRS list inside TEMPLATES setting. (Anyway, your template folder name should be templates not template.)

TEMPLATES = [
{
    'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
    'DIRS': [join(BASE_DIR, 'webgui/template/registration'),join(BASE_DIR, 'webgui/template/')],
    'APP_DIRS': True,
    'OPTIONS': {
        'context_processors': [
            'django.template.context_processors.debug',
            'django.template.context_processors.request',
            'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
            'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
        ],
    },
},
]