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Replies for: Hey Bret, it is a bit of a challenge to know exactly where you are stuck especially with no error messages. But I am going to give it a shot :) T...

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Bret •

In views I have:

Def homepage_view(request):
Return render(request, ‘homepage.html’)

and then also for about.

I have a homepage.html in my templates folder.

What are the imports in views.py do I need to do?

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Kingsley Ijomah • 
# view.py
from django.shortcuts import render

def homepage_view(request):
    return(request, 'homepage.html', context={})

#app.url
from django.urls import path
from .views import homepage_view

urlpatterns = [
    path("home", homepage_view, name="home"),
]

# settings.py
# should have something like this

TEMPLATES = [
...
"DIRS": [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "app_name/template/app_name")]
...
]

Hope this helps :)

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Bret •

Thank you! I watched “theNetNinja” and he never did anything with the dirs to have the os.path or anything. Don’t I just have to include templates [“templates”]?

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Kingsley Ijomah •

Push what you have up to GitHub or something and I can help direct you better, it is a little tricky not knowing the structure of your files, to know where your templates are being looked up from.

To see if your app is registered in settings, URL conf included etc.