Error: Template Does Not Exist

Question

I have two apps in one project the main apps call pages contain Home and About page the second apps is contact page. Here is my contact/urls.py in contact apps:

from .views import ContactFormView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
                       # URL pattern for the ContactView
                       url(regex=r'^contact/$', view=ContactFormView.as_view(), name='contact'),
)

the main apps pages/urls.py :

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url

from .views import AboutPageView, HomePageView


urlpatterns = patterns('',
                       url(regex=r'^$', view=HomePageView.as_view(), name='home'),
                       url(regex=r'^about/$', view=AboutPageView.as_view(), name='about'),

)

in main apps pages/views.py :

from vanilla import TemplateView

class HomePageView(TemplateView):
    template_name = "pages/home.jade"

class AboutPageView(TemplateView):
    template_name = "pages/about.jade"

class ContactFormView(TemplateView):
    template_name = "contact/email_form.jade"

I get this error say django.template.base.TemplateDoesNotExist

TemplateDoesNotExist: /contact/email_form.jade

I am not sure why, the setting file is OK I can open the main page with the contact page in the menu nav when I click contact I get the error above. Any helps appreciate Thanks

Answer 1

You should have the email_form.jade file inside /templates/contact. Or place it in /templates/pages and change the line to template_name = "pages/email_form.jade".

Answer 2

Check to make sure you don't have the any of the parent directories the template is in marked as static in app.yaml.

App Engine stores and serves static files separately from application files. Static files are not available in the application's file system.

If you do either find a separate directory to place static files or you can optionally use

application_readable: True in the configuration block for static files which allows the filesystem to read them.

See here for more details