Django Template Not Found

Question

I have a Django problem which only occasionally has problems finding Templates. It will be running fine for hours, and then suddenly not be able to serve certain templates. Occasionally the problem will correct itself, but can always be fixed by running touch <template>. My current solution is a cronjob which executes touch <project root> every minute, and that works so long as cron keeps up. However, I want to figure out a proper solution to my problem.

Relevant Settings:

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__)
APPS_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, "apps"))

TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
)
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    (PROJECT_ROOT + '/templates'),
)
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
    "django.core.context_processors.request",
    "django.core.context_processors.i18n",
    "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
    "base_site.context_processors.app_list"
)

STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
)

Answer 1

Just wanted to add another case where you may get the Template Does Not Exist error.

Make sure you've added your app in the INSTALLED_APPS variable inside your settings.py file. The startapp command is not enough.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'myappname', # add your app here :)
]

I know it's silly, but I know people that have failed their driver's test because of forgetting to fasten their seat belt, so forgetting a line of code isn't as rare as it sounds.