Admin Site: TemplateDoesNotExist at /admin/

Question

I\'m following Django\'s official Tutorial 2 but for some reason cannot create an admin site despite following all the steps correctly to my understanding.

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Answer 1

Since it works on other people's machines, and since you have the app directories loader enabled, admin site enabled in INSTALLED_APPS, and that's all it should take for templates to be discovered (I mean, what more can one do?) - I can only assume something is wrong with your django installation.

This would be a good chance to start using virtualenvs and a fresh install of django to rule out your settings:

Fire up a terminal, navigate to your project directory (doesn't actually matter...)

pip install virtualenv # if you don't have it.

virtualenv --no-site-packages env 
# this creates a virtual python environment that doesn't include system packages

source env/bin/activate
# this forces your bash session to use that environment

pip install django
# installs a fresh copy of django to your new environment

cd path_to_my_django_project    
# now go to your site directory

python manager.py runserver
# visit admin site.