Django-503 App Maintenance Template Error

Question

I recently downloaded coagulant's Django-503 app which generates a 503 page so that you can run maintenance.

The problem I am currently having is that I downloaded the app from GitHub and did a pip install. I followed all the instructions. However, when I try to turn on maintenance mode, I get the following error.

Request Method:     POST
Request URL:    http://XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:8000/admin/django_503/config/1/
Django Version:     1.4.3
Exception Type:     TemplateDoesNotExist
Exception Value:    admin_warning.html
Exception Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/template/loader.py in find_template, line 138

Even though the package from GitHub came with the templates, Django can't seem to find them. Is there any possible solution to this?

Answer 1

I figured out what the problem was, while doing a pip install, the package did not install the HTML files into the dist-packages directory where Django_503 resides. You need to manually add a templates folder inside Django_503 and then add the respective HTML files.

Answer 2

Is the path containing admin_warning.html in your setting's TEMPLATE_DIRS?