Django 1.3.7 TemplateDoesNotExist error admin/index.html

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There are numerous questions asked on this site similar to this one, but I couldn't find one that could explain this particular behavior. I am relatively new to django and ubuntu, so maybe the explanation is simple. This is an old (v1.3.7) django project I'm attempting to migrate to a new server. Here is the full error I am getting in my apache log: ``` TemplateDoesNotExist at /admin/ admin/login.html Request Method: GET Request URL: http://131.212.123.7:26080/glrimon/admin/ Django Version: 1.3.7 Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist Exception Value: admin/login.html Exception Location: /.../leave_beave/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/loader.py in find_template, line 138 Python Executable: /.../leave_beave/bin/python ``` `leave_beave` is the name of my virtualenv. Here is the info passed along by the traceback: ``` Template-loader postmortem Django tried loading these templates, in this order: Using loader django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader: /glri_mon/siteweb/templat…

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Newer versions of pip will create a wheel for the package, to speed up installation for the next time you use it. However because of this the templates are being installed into the virtual environment root directory.

A workaround to disable wheel creation was added to 1.4.22 - https://github.com/django/django/commit/3b324970e390a6dc4c373db036d6f27300d7fded, however anything before that would've created wheel files which cause problems such as missing templates.

Official support for wheel files was added to 1.5.1 - https://github.com/django/django/commit/4391718f26466f82f943e37368181d5c0520fa35.

With pip version 19, you can skip wheel installation/creation with `pip install --no-binary Django Django==1.3.7`. Older versions of pip may have slightly different command line arguments.

Django 1.3.7 TemplateDoesNotExist error admin/index.html

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