Using relative paths for Django template directories

Sun, 2008-12-07 19:03 — Nilesh

Django's template dirs are specified as absolute paths in settings.py:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
)

But since this is just Python code, it is relatively easy to specify relative paths (no pun intended). As described in this blog, add the following code to settings.py:

import os
PROJECT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

And then in the TEMPLATE_DIRS section you can specify a relative path like this:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'templates')
)

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Comments

Thu, 2009-05-07 12:05 — sampablokuper (not verified)

Good tip, thanks!

I've been using Django for a while, and had always obediently gone along with the inconvenience of using absolute paths in the TEMPLATE_DIRS setting.

Thanks for a concise demonstration of how to get around needing to continue doing this!

Nilesh D Kapadia

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