Admin Site: TemplateDoesNotExist at /admin/

Question

I\'m following Django\'s official Tutorial 2 but for some reason cannot create an admin site despite following all the steps correctly to my understanding.

This is t

Answer 1

for windows user the admin_tools in the templates section should be place in the begining

   'loaders': [
            **'admin_tools.template_loaders.Loader',**    
            'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
            'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',

Answer 2

I ran into the same problem, and I had to force pip to re-download django.

pip install -r requirements.txt --ignore-installed --force-reinstall --upgrade --no-cache-dir

Note: I know that the --no-cache-dir option is necessary, I'm not certain that the other options are all required.

Answer 3

For my case, I have INSTALLED_APPS good, but just need to point inside TEMPLATE_DIRS the django admin template:

import os #Put at the starting line

PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    ... #Another folder,
    os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'relative/path/to/virtualenv/my_env/django/contrib/admin/templates'),
)

And it works

Answer 4

This issue may happen if you changed something in TEMPLATES in settings.py:

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

I have stumbled with this issue, alhamdulillah, my mistake was solved when I changed the 'APP_DIRS': False, to 'APP_DIRS': True,

Answer 5

Since it works on other people's machines, and since you have the app directories loader enabled, admin site enabled in INSTALLED_APPS, and that's all it should take for templates to be discovered (I mean, what more can one do?) - I can only assume something is wrong with your django installation.

This would be a good chance to start using virtualenvs and a fresh install of django to rule out your settings:

Fire up a terminal, navigate to your project directory (doesn't actually matter...)

pip install virtualenv # if you don't have it.

virtualenv --no-site-packages env 
# this creates a virtual python environment that doesn't include system packages

source env/bin/activate
# this forces your bash session to use that environment

pip install django
# installs a fresh copy of django to your new environment

cd path_to_my_django_project    
# now go to your site directory

python manager.py runserver
# visit admin site.

Answer 6

I meet the same error, after several times pip install and uninstall Django, it's still not work. Then I download Django tar.gz file from Django website, and install from this file , all is fine. Hopefully this can help somebody.