First solution:
These settings
TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( os.path.join(SETTINGS_PATH, 'templates'), )
mean that Django will look at the templates from templates/
directory under your project.
Assuming your Django project is located at /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/
then with your settings django will look for the templates under /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/templates/
So in that case we want to move our templates to be structured like this:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/templates/template1.html /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/templates/template2.html /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/templates/template3.html
Second solution:
If that still doesn’t work and assuming that you have the apps configured in settings.py like this:
INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'appname1', 'appname2', 'appname3', )
By default Django will load the templates under templates/
directory under every installed apps. So with your directory structure, we want to move our templates to be like this:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/appname1/templates/template1.html /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/appname2/templates/template2.html /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/appname3/templates/template3.html
SETTINGS_PATH
may not be defined by default. In which case, you will want to define it (in settings.py):
import os SETTINGS_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))