Django : TemplateDoesNotExist at /.../

Question

I'm trying to render a simple page, but I encountered a problem.

TemplateDoesNotExist at /pages/  
{}

The template folder is not found. here is my configurations of settings.py

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

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'pages/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',
            ],
        },
    },
]

Have I done something wrong ?

--------------- CMD ----------------

Internal Server Error: /pages/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 149, in get_response
    response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py", line 147, in get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "C:\Python34\Scripts\src\pages\views.py", line 6, in index
    return render('index.html', context)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\shortcuts.py", line 67, in render
    template_name, context, request=request, using=using)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py", line 96, in render_to_string
    template = get_template(template_name, using=using)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py", line 43, in get_template
    raise TemplateDoesNotExist(template_name, chain=chain)
django.template.exceptions.TemplateDoesNotExist: {}
[12/Jan/2016 20:51:57] "GET /pages/ HTTP/1.1" 500 74646

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views.py

from django.shortcuts import render

# Create your views here.
def index(request):
    context = {}
    return render(request, 'index.html', context)

Answer 1

You probably forgot to add your app in Installed_Apps setting.

INSTALLED_APPS = [

...

'your_app'  

]

Answer 2

You have forgotten the first argument request when you call render.

return render(request, 'index.html', context)

You can have multiple template directories, e.g. src/template and pages/template. If you want to have a src/template directory, then you need to include it in your DIRS option`.

    'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],

You don't need pages/templates in the DIRS directory -- templates in that directory will be found by the app loader because you have APP_DIRS set to True, and pages is in your INSTALLED_APPS setting.