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

I am using Django Version 1.9.7 and when trying to add the admin_tools (menu and dashboard) to my application I had a similar issue. I found I had to do three things:

1. Edit the INSTALLED_APPS option in settings.py as follows (note that the admin_tools come before django contrib, 'mines' is the name of my application):

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       'admin_tools',
       'admin_tools.theming',
       'admin_tools.menu',
       'admin_tools.dashboard',
       'django.contrib.admin',
       'django.contrib.auth',
       'django.contrib.contenttypes',
       'django.contrib.sessions',
       'django.contrib.messages',
       'django.contrib.staticfiles',
       'mines'
   ]
   

2. Edit the TEMPLATE setting in the settings.py file as follows (note the 'loaders' option that got added, and that APP_DIRS are now set to false):

   TEMPLATES = [{
       'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
       'DIRS': [],
       'APP_DIRS': False,
       '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',
           ],
           'loaders': [
               'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
               'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
               'admin_tools.template_loaders.Loader',
           ],
       },
   }]
   

3. And then finally I updated my urls.py file as follows (note the include for the admin_tools urls):

   from django.conf.urls import include,url
   from django.contrib import admin
   from mines.views import SummaryByMapIcon
   
   urlpatterns = [
       url(r'^admin_tools/', include('admin_tools.urls')),
       url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
       url(r'^summarybymapicon$', SummaryByMapIcon, name='summarybymapicon'),
   ]
   

Answer 2

I'm adding an "answer" as I cannot with my current "reputation" add a comment.

Following Aaron solution:

In a project with Django 1.4 with docker with the same issue (accessing yourproject/admin/login.html or yourproject/admin/index.html). I used in python.dockerfile this, and solved:

"RUN pip install -r requirements.txt --no-cache-dir"

Before I did this, I verified entering inside the docker, that inside the folder usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/ didnt exist the folder /templates/.

I was reading this before coming to this post: https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=django-users@googlegroups.com&q=subject:%22TemplateDoesNotExist+at+%5C%2Fadmin%5C%2F%22&o=newest&f=1

Answer 3

I solved this same problem by reinstalling Django with the --no-cache-dir option:

pip uninstall django
pip install django --no-cache-dir

Solved thanks to the answer here.

Answer 4

Had the same issue. Strangely I found that sometime the template and media is not copied from your django/contrib/admin. Therefore you need to copy them to your virtual env django directory.

i.e from your /venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib directory you need to

ln -s ~/Sites/your_dj_app/venv/django/contrib/admin/templates templates

and

ln -s ~/Sites/your_dj_app/venv/django/contrib/admin/media media

I am so glad that my problem is solved but so annoyed that I had to spend over an hour debugging it.

Hope you won't have to :)