Jade layout can not be found in subdirectory

My settings: My directory structrue looks like this: ``` /views/ |-- index.jade |-- layout.jade /account/ |-- login.jade |-- register.jade ``` I have configured my view engine as follows: ``` app.set('view engine', 'jade'); ``` Edit: I also have ``` app.set('views', __dirname + '/views'); ``` My controllers look like: ``` app.get('/login', redirectIfLogined, function(req, res){ res.render('account/login', { title: "Login", redir: req.query.redir}); }); app.get('/register', redirectIfLogined, function(req, res) { res.render('account/register', { title: "Register"}); }); ``` My issue With settings as described I am getting a 500 error: ``` 500 Error: failed to locate view "layout" at Function.compile (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\view.js:58:15) at ServerResponse._render (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\view.js:414:18) at ServerResponse.render (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\view.js:315:17) at ServerResponse._render (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\view.js:429:10) at ServerResponse.render (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\view.js:315:17) at D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\controllers\accountController.js:6:13 at callbacks (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:272:11) at D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\modules\middleware\account.js:27:9 at callbacks (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:272:11) at param (D:\dev\Azznomad\express-template\node_modules\express\lib\router\index.js:246:11) ``` As soon as I am copying my `layout.jade` file into the `/account/` folder it works perfectly. Unfortunately this would make no sense since it forced me to have redundant layout files. What am I missing? Btw. this code snipplets are from AzzNomad's express/mongoose template which is very helpful in order to learn express with mongoose.