Django 1.6: Extending project template through app template

Question

Should be an easy answer but I don't seem to get it.

Django 1.4 used to have 1 folder templates with subfolders for each app. I would then extend the master template by writing:

{% extend "base.html" %} #extending the master
{% extend "app/base.html" %} #extending another template from an app

However, in Django 1.6 documentation each app looks for it's own templates folder:

...we’ll put this one in the application’s template directory (polls/templates) rather than the project’s (templates)...

. Which is all good for modularity. But when I try to extend the base.html of the project (which all apps should extend) I get TemplateDoesNotExist error. I tried to correct the path in different ways but it didn't work:

base.html
templates/base.html
../templates/base.html
../../templates/base.html
../../../templates/base.html
projectname/templates/base.html
projectname/base.html

If you have an idea how to make this work, please let me know.

Cheers! pp

Answer 1

This error usually means that it couldn't find the template you mentioned in the listed directories in settings.TEMPLATE_DIRS. And as you said in your comment, that turned out to be the problem