Django Template Error : Template u'base.html' cannot be extended

Question

I get this error when I run a django app (dpaste)

Template error

In template c:\python\projects\mycms\dpaste\templates\dpaste\base.html, error at line 1

Template u'base.html' cannot be extended, because it doesn't exist

1   {% extends "base.html" %}

But the "base.html" do exist in the template directory and it has this one line in it:

{% extends "base.html" %}

What is wrong with that?

Answer 1

Your base.html template cannot extend itself. The problem lies there. Remove that line and replace it with valid html or other Django template tags (or extend some other template).

Answer 2

A template can't extend itself.

Answer 3

If you meant to say that:

{% extends "base.html" %}

is the only line in the including template, not the base template, then maybe your problem is that "base.html" is relative to the template root.

So if in settings you have:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = ("/home/me/mysite/mytemplates")

and the including template is:

/home/me/mysite/mytemplates/myapp/page.html

and the base template is:

/home/me/mysite/mytemplates/myapp/base.html

then you want to use:

{% extends "myapp/base.html" %}

At least that's what my problem was when I found this page.