The TEMPLATE setting is a list of the template engines used when finding template files and rendering them.
The DIRS key within the TEMPLATE list denotes the directories where the engine should look for template source files.
DIRS must be absolute paths. Relative paths will not work.
So in practice, do this
import os
ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
TEMPLATES = [
{
# …
'DIRS': [os.path.join(ROOT, 'templates')],
}
}
Instead of this
TEMPLATES = [
{
# …
'DIRS': ['templates'],
}
}
Django Doctor will run this check by default. No configuration is needed but the check can be turned on/off using check code template-dir-relative
in your pyproject.toml file.