title: TemplateDoesNotExist at / base.html
body: <p>friends.
  I try to repeat by doing the example of project in book: "Learning Django Web Development" by Jaiswal, Sanjeev.</p>
  
  <p>Running the server i get such exception: TemplateDoesNotExist at /base.html</p>
  
  <pre><code>TemplateDoesNotExist at /
  base.html
  
  Request Method:     GET
  Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/
  Django Version:     1.8.3
  Exception Type:     TemplateDoesNotExist
  Exception Value:    base.html
  
  Exception Location: C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py in get_template, line 46
  Python Executable:  C:\Python34\python.EXE
  Python Version:     3.4.3
  Python Path:    
  
  ['C:\\dj\\mytweets',
  'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\python34.zip',
  'C:\\Python34\\DLLs',
  'C:\\Python34\\lib',
  'C:\\Python34',
  'C:\\Python34\\lib\\site-packages']
  
  Server time:    Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:01:27 +0300
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Template-loader postmortem</p>
  
  <pre><code>Django tried loading these templates, in this order:
  
      Using loader django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader:
      Using loader django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader:
          C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templates\base.html (File does not exist)
          C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\templates\base.html (File does not exist)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My settings.py file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import os
  
  SETTINGS_PATH = os.path.dirname(__file__)
  PROJECT_PATH = os.path.join(SETTINGS_PATH, os.pardir)
  PROJECT_PATH = os.path.abspath(PROJECT_PATH)
  TEMPLATE_PATH = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, "templates")
  
  SECRET_KEY = 'khcr3h6u+ghi+rtb+g_(mvgq!mtn9u4&amp;%=hu20vt2*u(p8-kde'
  
  DEBUG = True
  TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True
  ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
  
  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      'django.contrib.admin',
      'django.contrib.auth',
      'django.contrib.contenttypes',
      'django.contrib.sessions',
      'django.contrib.messages',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles',
      'tweets',
  )
  
  MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
      'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
  )
  
  ROOT_URLCONF = 'mytweets.urls'
  
  TEMPLATES = [
      {
          'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
          'DIRS': [os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'templates')],
          'APP_DIRS': True,
          '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',
              ],
          },
      },
  ]
  
  WSGI_APPLICATION = 'mytweets.wsgi.application'
  
  DATABASES = {
      'default': {
          'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
          'NAME': os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'db.sqlite3'),
      }
  }
  
  LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
  
  TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
  
  USE_I18N = True
  
  USE_L10N = True
  
  USE_TZ = True
  
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  STATICFILES_DIRS = (
      os.path.join(
          os.path.dirname(__file__),
          'static',
      ),
  )
  
  TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
      TEMPLATE_PATH,
  )
  
  TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
      'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
      'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried to change settings.py in such way too:</p>
  
  <p>changed settings.py:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import os
  
  BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
  TEMPLATE_PATH = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates")
  
  SECRET_KEY = 'khcr3h6u+ghi+rtb+g_(mvgq!mtn9u4&amp;%=hu20vt2*u(p8-kde'
  
  DEBUG = True
  TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True
  ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
  
  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      'django.contrib.admin',
      'django.contrib.auth',
      'django.contrib.contenttypes',
      'django.contrib.sessions',
      'django.contrib.messages',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles',
      'tweets',
  )
  
  MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
      'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
  )
  
  ROOT_URLCONF = 'mytweets.urls'
  
  TEMPLATES = [
      {
          'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
          'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
          'APP_DIRS': True,
          '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',
              ],
          },
      },
  ]
  
  WSGI_APPLICATION = 'mytweets.wsgi.application'
  
  DATABASES = {
      'default': {
          'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
          'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
      }
  }
  
  LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
  
  TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
  
  USE_I18N = True
  
  USE_L10N = True
  
  USE_TZ = True
  
  
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  STATICFILES_DIRS = (
      os.path.join(
          os.path.dirname(__file__),
          'static',
      ),
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My project structure:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2sAG4.png" alt="My project structure:"></p>
  
  <p>views.py:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from django.views.generic import View
  from django.shortcuts import render
  
  
  class Index(View):
      def get(self, request):
          params = {}
          params['name'] = 'Django'
          return render(request, 'base.html', params)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>urls.py:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
  from django.contrib import admin
  from tweets.views import Index
  admin.autodiscover()
  
  urlpatterns = patterns('',
      url(r'^$', Index.as_view()),
      url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Traceback:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Template Loader Error:
  Django tried loading these templates, in this order:
  Using loader django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader:
  Using loader django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader:
  C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templates\base.html    (File does not exist)
  C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\templates\base.html (File does not exist)
  
  
  
  Traceback:
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response  
  132.response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\base.py" in view  
  71.return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\base.py" in dispatch  
  89.return handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\dj\mytweets\tweets\views.py" in get  
  9.return render(request, 'base.html', params)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\shortcuts.py" in render
  67.template_name, context, request=request, using=using)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py" in render_to_string 
  98.template = get_template(template_name, using=using)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader.py" in get_template  
  46.raise TemplateDoesNotExist(template_name)
  
  Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist at /
  Exception Value: base.html
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please, give an advice, what should i change to get rendered page?</p>