How do I call templates with same names at different directories in Django?

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Working with Django 1.8

I have two templates with same name,

base.html at /mysite/templates/base.html

and another from an app with the same name (base.html) at location, /mysite/app/templates/base.html

my template settings,

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',
            ],
        },
    },
]

view

def home(request):
    c = { name: 'myname', username: 'myusername'}
    return render(request, 'base.html', c)

This calls the 'base.html' from the project root, but how can I call the template from the app/template directory.

thank you for any reference!

Update:

I've added the app location to the template dirs,

'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'), os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'app/templates')],

now my IDE shows both the files, still the root's base.html is rendered. how do I reference one template over the other?

Update: Fixed with adding one more directory at the app template level.

now my app templates directory structure looks like this,

mysite/app/templates/app/base.html

os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'app/templates') is not needed in TEMPLATE DIR if the app is in the installed apps tuple.

more efficient solutions on Django 1.8 are welcome.

Ben

With your current directory structure, you can't - it's done this way to allow you to override templates by apps later on in your INSTALLED_APPS setting. The convention is to use a directory structure more like:

app1/templates/app1/base.html
app2/templates/app2/base.html

And then use app1/base.html or app2/base.html to refer to the one you want.

Edit

To be more clear on what I mean: your project structure could look like this:

mysite
    - templates
        - base.html
    - manage.py (etc...)
    - app
        - models.py (etc...)
        - templates
            - app
                - base.html

Then you can use base.html to get the first one and app/base.html to get the other - and the relevant app templates are all packaged inside the app they refer to, but are namespaced.

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edited at2021-02-18

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