title: How to setup django 1.8 to use jinja2?
body: <p>So, now that django officially supports Jinja 2 as a templating engine, I hoped enabling it would be as simple as switching a line in config. But when I do that, jinja fails to find my templates. </p>
  
  <p>My understanding is I could manually configure a list of directories for it to look for templates in, but I would like it to behave exactly like DTL behaves by default.
  (ie. look in the /templates directory). Basically, my app is structured the way it is suggested in the official tutorial, and I would like to use jinja without changing anything else. Is it possible?</p>
  
  <p>Here's how my setings.py file looks now:</p>
  
  <pre><code>TEMPLATES = [
      {
          'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2',
          'APP_DIRS': True,
      },
  ]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The error I get is <code>TemplateDoesNotExist at /</code></p>
  
  <p>and here is my directory structure:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mysite
      mysite
      myapp
          templates
              myapp  
                  index.html
      manage.py
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>please note that I am hoping not to use any external modules.</p>
  
  <p><strong>edit:</strong> as requested, here's the code calling the template:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def index(request):
      return render(request, 'myapp/index.html')
  </code></pre>