Django looks for templates in my .envs folder (+ Django Admin)

Question

I have my folders set up like this:

~/projects/myproject/
~/.envs/myproject/

My app folders look like this:

myapp/
├── __init__.py
├── admin.py
├── forms.py
├── migrations/
├── models.py
├── tests/
├── templates/
├── urls.py
├── views.py

I just implemented a custom password reset view, because I wanted to use my own templates. The problem is, that the password reset view does not find my template. Here is my view:

class CustomPasswordResetConfirmView(views.PasswordResetConfirmView):
    success_url = reverse_lazy("accounts:password_reset_complete")
    template_name = "accounts/registration/password_reset_confirm.html"

And here is the error message that I get:

TemplateDoesNotExist at /auth/reset/MQ/set-password/
accounts/registration/password_reset_confirm.html.
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://localhost:8000/auth/reset/MQ/set-password/
Django Version: 1.11.13
Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist
Exception Value:    
accounts/registration/password_reset_confirm.html.
Exception Location: /Users/jan/.envs/myproject/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/template/loader.py in select_template, line 53
Python Executable:  /Users/jan/.envs/myproject/bin/python
Python Version: 3.6.5
Python Path:    
['/Users/jan/Dev/Misc Tutorial/myproject',
 '/Users/jan/.envs/myproject/lib/python36.zip',
 '/Users/jan/.envs/myproject/lib/python3.6',
 '/Users/jan/.envs/myproject/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload',
 '/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.6.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6',
 '/Users/jan/.envs/myproject/lib/python3.6/site-packages']

How can I get Django to find my custom templates? From the error I can tell that he looks in my virtual environments.

I tried specifying the templates path like this:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
            [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]
        ],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.i18n',
                'django.template.context_processors.media',
                'django.template.context_processors.static',
                'django.template.context_processors.tz',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

The code for this I got from the Django documentation. Unfortunately this doesn't help. If you have any idea how I can fix this, I would be very thankful!

(On a related note, I also tried to use django-admin instead of manage.py, because the official docs recommend it. But I couldn't set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE env variable so that it works. Maybe this problem is related.)

EDIT: The app for the account related stuff is called accounts. In it is a folder called templates, holding various other folders, one is called 'registration'.

Answer 1

Kinda solved.

Circumvented the django-admin problem by using manage.py just as pydanny suggested.

And I just had my templates configured wrongly. Here is the new view I used:

class CustomPasswordResetConfirmView(views.PasswordResetConfirmView):
    success_url = reverse_lazy("accounts:password_reset_complete")
    template_name = "registration/password_reset_confirm.html"

I also put the template folder in my project root like this:

myproject
  accounts/
  ...
  myproject/
  templates/

The registration/ folder is now within this templates/ directory.

Together with the following settings everything works now, thank you for everyone that helped!

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',
            ],
        },
    },
]