Custom django admin templates not working

Question

I\'ve been trying to get custom templates for the admin page for Django working but have been unsuccessful. I\'ve read the django documentation and several blogs which explain i

Answer 1

I couldn't get the admin template to be recognized when doing this step in part two of the Django tutorial.

This is how I solved it:

Using the information in this answer, I printed the value of TEMPLATE_DIRS:

1. At the command line, navigate to the directory in which the project's settings.py file exists (for me this is R:\jeffy\programming\sandbox\python\django\tutorial\mysite\mysite\)
2. Start the interactive shell: python
3. >>> import settings
4. >>> settings.TEMPLATE_DIRS, which outputs ['R:\\jeffy\\programming\\sandbox\\python\\django\\tutorial\\mysite\\templates']

So this is the expected location of the templates directory for this project. The admin directory goes into that, and the base_site.html file goes into that.

The other problem I had was that it was working, but I only changed the