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.

This is t

Answer 1

I ran into similar problem trying to configure django-admin-tools for Django 2.0.2

Eventually I got it working. Here's my TEMPLATES settings.

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
        'APP_DIRS': False,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
            'loaders' : [
                'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
                'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
                'admin_tools.template_loaders.Loader',
                ]
        },
    },
]

This worked even as I overrode the default admin template.

Just be sure to take note of where to place the django-admin-tools apps. See @Abrie Nel's answer above.