Added settings.py modification after creating a template

[doriczapari]

I couldn't make my app work with the base template until I added the TEMPLATE_DIRS line in the settings.py file, just like we did with the static files. I hope this is a useful contributon as this is my first one ever! :)

[bmispelon]

Using TEMPLATE_DIRS is the proper way to do it but it shouldn't have been necessary since 'mysite' is in INSTALLED_APPS so its templates are found automatically.

I haven't done the tutorial from beginning to end in a while, but maybe what is missing is simply a restart of runserver (it usually detects new/modified files automatically but it's possible that a new directory might not trigger the automatic restart).

[olasitarska]

I just fixed it a couple of days ago with this: 5c1a110. @doriczapari probably took tutorial before this change...

@bmispelon what is easiest / best solution? I am on the fence :)

[doriczapari]

@olasitarska yes, for me there was only ´'blog'´ in ´INSTALLED_APPS´, I had a hunch this could be the problem but I wasn't familiar enough with Django yet to prove my point :) Thanks!

[bmispelon]

For me, having mysite in INSTALLED_APPS is kind of a hack and I think we can fix it without making things more complicated.

I'll try to work on this and review the current situation this week.

[bmispelon]

I opened #117 as an alternative solution to this.

The approach I took there is to put all the templates inside the blog application so we don't need to either add mysite to INSTALLED_APPS or add the TEMPLATE_DIRS settings.

Feedback welcome as always,
Thanks.