Django admin TemplateSyntaxError / TemplateDoesNotExist at /admin/

I've just updated django to version 1.2.4 but, having taken the normal steps with installing the admin, i'm getting a TemplateSyntaxError:

TemplateSyntaxError at /admin/

Caught TemplateDoesNotExist while rendering: admin/base.html

So a superuser has been created, i've installed the app, run syncdb. My urls page is as follows:

[...]
# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',

    # admin enabled
     (r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
     (r'^admin/', incl开发者_Python百科ude(admin.site.urls)),
[...]

In addition if I follow the paths for the admin media e.g. http://localhost:8000/static/admin/css/base.css

I get: Permission denied: /static/admin/css/base.css - fixed this, but same error loading admin remains

Update

OK so it now works, by putting the admin templates inside my normal template dir.. but I assume this is a bad idea, but it perhaps implies it might simply be an issue with permissions or paths?

Update

Could this be a permissions issue? What would I want to CHMOD these to?

pwd /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin

Adam-Gambles-MacBook-Air:admin adamgamble$ ls -al
total 168
drwxr-xr-x  26 root  admin   884 17 Mar 12:27 .
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  admin   136 17 Mar 12:27 ..
-rw-------   1 root  admin   268 18 Mar  2008 404.html
-rw-------   1 root  admin   502 18 Mar  2008 500.html
-rw-------   1 root  admin  1095  4 May  2010 actions.html
-rw-------   1 root  admin   347 23 Aug  2008 app_index.html
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin   102 17 Mar 12:27 auth
-rw-------   1 root  admin  3605 10 Oct 02:59 base.html
[...ETC...]

PROBLEM FIXED

Involved reinstalling django, and starting a new project. Dissatisfying result, but thanks for helping out!

Check that django.contrib.admin is added in the INSTALLED_APPS settings. If it's not there, then the admin templates directory, django/contrib/admin/templates, won't be added to the list of template directories, and you'll be getting the TemplateDoesNotExist error.

Additionally, make sure the django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader is added to TEMPLATE_LOADERS settings. That's the actual loader that knows that any templates/ directory in the root of any installed application package should be used for template discovery.

Usually in django static files like js scripts or css and images are served by a different handler. It seems you did not served the URLs that starts with '^static' then the application may not find them. I advise you serve them with an additional line in the url.py:

(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
    {'document_root': '/path/to/static/files'}),

And try to access the CSS from its URI. If you're able to do so, then also the template should be correctly rendered.

... but again, the error says template rendering error. Did you follow the base installation procedure? http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/intro/tutorial02/

TemplateDoesNotExist at /admin/doc/

this means you missed a prerequisite outlined earlier: either the docutils package wasn't installed with

pip install docutils

or the

django.contrib.admindocs

package wasn't added to the INSTALLED_APPS variable in settings.py.