Hello, ...Help following tutorial...?

[theabhijeet]

Hello, ...Help following tutorial...?

[JessMTermini]

OMGosh, I FINALLY FIXED IT!!!

So, turns out the tutorial on djangocentral shows it written as, TEMPLATE_DIRS instead of TEMPLATES_DIR,which is what it's actually supposed to be(!!) but once I fixed that it unfortunately still didn't work, BUT..., once I made these other simple changes to my settings.py file it finally worked!!

It's a really good thing the source code was available, I totally forgot that was accessible to me since I had started the tutorial completely from scratch - with NO Cheating LOL!! So, once I took a look it was very clear.

It may be worth mentioning here, that whatever files django creates during the startapp command, it includes all the text I had to replace below. For that reason I felt that you might still want to update djangocentral's website with the most current information, which is why I decided, as simple a fix as this ended up being (which was only possible because the source code was correct and available afterall!!) to continue and post the fix here, instead of just deleting it all...so maybe I can be of some help afterall! ;) WOOT WOOT!

So anyways - Here's the fix!!

Remove:
from pathlib import Path,

Replace it with:
import os

Remove:

# Build paths inside the project like this: BASE_DIR / 'subdir'.
BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent

Replace it with:

# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

Remove (from DATABASES Section):
'NAME': BASE_DIR / 'db.sqlite3',

Replace it with:
"NAME": os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "db.sqlite3"),

and of course correct the two places that TEMPLATES_DIR shows up.