django.template.exceptions.TemplateDoesNotExist: AlgoDash/index.html

[Resolved]

I was getting above error in dJango and struggled for more than an hour to fix it. Its very frustrating and confusing

Solution


Keep the templates folder under the root of the project where manage.py exists. So the html file should be in this case templates/AlgoDash/index.html

Change the DIRS value under TEMPLATES in settings.py like below

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

And your project will work!