TemplateDoesNotExist error

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TemplateDoesNotExist at /

rest_framework/api.html
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://api.alcode.ma/
undefined —:
Django Version: 5.1.3
undefined —:
Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist
undefined —:
Exception Value:
undefined —: 
rest_framework/api.html
Exception Location: /home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/template/loader.py, line 19, in get_template
Raised during: app.views.Category_queries
undefined —:
Python Executable: /home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/venv/bin/python3
undefined —:
Python Version: 3.10.12
undefined —:
Python Path:
undefined —: 
['/home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend',
 '/home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/venv/bin',
 '/usr/lib/python310.zip',
 '/usr/lib/python3.10',
 '/usr/lib/python3.10/lib-dynload',
 '/home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages']
Server time: Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:04:41 +0000

Template-loader postmortem

Django tried loading these templates, in this order:

Using engine :

  • This engine did not provide a list of tried templates.

Traceback Switch to copy-and-paste view

  • /home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py, line 55, in inner

    1.                 response = get_response(request)

      …

    Local vars
    Variable Value
    exc 
    TemplateDoesNotExist('rest_framework/api.html')
    get_response 
    <bound method BaseHandler._get_response of <django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler object at 0x7197460ff9a0>>
    request 
    <WSGIRequest: GET '/'>

  • /home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py, line 220, in _get_response

    1.                 response = response.render()

      …

    Local vars
    Variable Value
    callback 
    <function View.as_view.<locals>.view at 0x719745627ac0>
    callback_args 
    ()
    callback_kwargs 
    {}
    middleware_method 
    <bound method CsrfViewMiddleware.process_view of <CsrfViewMiddleware get_response=convert_exception_to_response.<locals>.inner>>
    request 
    <WSGIRequest: GET '/'>
    response 
    None
    self 
    <django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler object at 0x7197460ff9a0>
    wrapped_callback 
    <function View.as_view.<locals>.view at 0x719745627ac0>

  • /home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/template/response.py, line 114, in render

    1.             self.content = self.rendered_content

      …

    Local vars
    Variable Value
    retval 
    <Response status_code=200, "text/html; charset=utf-8">
    self 
    <Response status_code=200, "text/html; charset=utf-8">

  • /home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rest_framework/response.py, line 74, in rendered_content

    1.         ret = renderer.render(self.data, accepted_media_type, context)

      …

    Local vars
    Variable Value
    accepted_media_type 
    'text/html'
    charset 
    'utf-8'
    content_type 
    'text/html; charset=utf-8'
    context 
    {'args': (),
 'kwargs': {},
 'request': <rest_framework.request.Request: GET '/'>,
 'response': <Response status_code=200, "text/html; charset=utf-8">,
 'view': <app.views.WrappedAPIView object at 0x7197455049a0>}
    media_type 
    'text/html'
    renderer 
    <rest_framework.renderers.BrowsableAPIRenderer object at 0x7197455061d0>
    self 
    <Response status_code=200, "text/html; charset=utf-8">

  • /home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rest_framework/renderers.py, line 726, in render

    1.         template = loader.get_template(self.template)

      …

    Local vars
    Variable Value
    accepted_media_type 
    'text/html'
    data 
    'you are home'
    renderer_context 
    {'args': (),
 'kwargs': {},
 'request': <rest_framework.request.Request: GET '/'>,
 'response': <Response status_code=200, "text/html; charset=utf-8">,
 'view': <app.views.WrappedAPIView object at 0x7197455049a0>}
    self 
    <rest_framework.renderers.BrowsableAPIRenderer object at 0x7197455061d0>

  • /home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/template/loader.py, line 19, in get_template

    1.     raise TemplateDoesNotExist(template_name, chain=chain)

      …

    Local vars
    Variable Value
    chain 
    []
    engines 
    []
    template_name 
    'rest_framework/api.html'
    using 
    None

Request information

USER

AnonymousUser

GET

No GET data

POST

No POST data

FILES

No FILES data

COOKIES

No cookie data

META

Variable Value
HTTP_ACCEPT 
'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7'
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING 
'gzip, deflate, br, zstd'
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE 
'en-FR,en;q=0.9,fr-FR;q=0.8,fr;q=0.7,ar-XB;q=0.6,ar;q=0.5,en-GB;q=0.4,en-US;q=0.3'
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL 
'no-cache'
HTTP_CONNECTION 
'close'
HTTP_HOST 
'api.alcode.ma'
HTTP_PRAGMA 
'no-cache'
HTTP_SEC_CH_UA 
'"Chromium";v="142", "Google Chrome";v="142", "Not_A Brand";v="99"'
HTTP_SEC_CH_UA_MOBILE 
'?0'
HTTP_SEC_CH_UA_PLATFORM 
'"Windows"'
HTTP_SEC_FETCH_DEST 
'document'
HTTP_SEC_FETCH_MODE 
'navigate'
HTTP_SEC_FETCH_SITE 
'none'
HTTP_SEC_FETCH_USER 
'?1'
HTTP_UPGRADE_INSECURE_REQUESTS 
'1'
HTTP_USER_AGENT 
('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like '
 'Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36')
PATH_INFO 
'/'
QUERY_STRING 
''
RAW_URI 
'/'
REMOTE_ADDR 
'127.0.0.1'
REMOTE_PORT 
'52680'
REQUEST_METHOD 
'GET'
SCRIPT_NAME 
''
SERVER_NAME 
'127.0.0.1'
SERVER_PORT 
'8001'
SERVER_PROTOCOL 
'HTTP/1.0'
SERVER_SOFTWARE 
'gunicorn/23.0.0'
gunicorn.socket 
<socket.socket fd=9, family=AddressFamily.AF_INET, type=SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM, proto=0, laddr=('127.0.0.1', 8001), raddr=('127.0.0.1', 52680)>
wsgi.errors 
<gunicorn.http.wsgi.WSGIErrorsWrapper object at 0x719745504ee0>
wsgi.file_wrapper 
<class 'gunicorn.http.wsgi.FileWrapper'>
wsgi.input 
<gunicorn.http.body.Body object at 0x719745504af0>
wsgi.input_terminated 
True
wsgi.multiprocess 
True
wsgi.multithread 
False
wsgi.run_once 
False
wsgi.url_scheme 
'http'
wsgi.version 
(1, 0)

Settings

Using settings module backend.settings

Setting Value
ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES 
{}
ADMINS 
[]
ALLOWED_HOSTS 
['api.alcode.ma', '16.171.173.31', 'localhost', '127.0.0.1']
APPEND_SLASH 
True
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS 
['django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend']
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS 
'********************'
AUTH_USER_MODEL 
'auth.User'
BASE_DIR 
PosixPath('/home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend')
CACHES 
{'default': {'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache'}}
CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS 
'default'
CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX 
'********************'
CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS 
600
CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS 
['https://alcode.ma', 'http://alcode.ma']
CORS_ALLOW_CREDENTIALS 
False
CSRF_COOKIE_AGE 
31449600
CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN 
None
CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY 
False
CSRF_COOKIE_NAME 
'csrftoken'
CSRF_COOKIE_PATH 
'/'
CSRF_COOKIE_SAMESITE 
'Lax'
CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE 
False
CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW 
'django.views.csrf.csrf_failure'
CSRF_HEADER_NAME 
'HTTP_X_CSRFTOKEN'
CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS 
[]
CSRF_USE_SESSIONS 
False
DATABASES 
{'default': {'ATOMIC_REQUESTS': False,
             'AUTOCOMMIT': True,
             'CONN_HEALTH_CHECKS': False,
             'CONN_MAX_AGE': 0,
             'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
             'HOST': '',
             'NAME': PosixPath('/home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/db.sqlite3'),
             'OPTIONS': {},
             'PASSWORD': '********************',
             'PORT': '',
             'TEST': {'CHARSET': None,
                      'COLLATION': None,
                      'MIGRATE': True,
                      'MIRROR': None,
                      'NAME': None},
             'TIME_ZONE': None,
             'USER': ''}}
DATABASE_ROUTERS 
[]
DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE 
2621440
DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS 
1000
DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FILES 
100
DATETIME_FORMAT 
'N j, Y, P'
DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS 
['%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',
 '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f',
 '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M',
 '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S',
 '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%f',
 '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M',
 '%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S',
 '%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S.%f',
 '%m/%d/%y %H:%M']
DATE_FORMAT 
'N j, Y'
DATE_INPUT_FORMATS 
['%Y-%m-%d',
 '%m/%d/%Y',
 '%m/%d/%y',
 '%b %d %Y',
 '%b %d, %Y',
 '%d %b %Y',
 '%d %b, %Y',
 '%B %d %Y',
 '%B %d, %Y',
 '%d %B %Y',
 '%d %B, %Y']
DEBUG 
True
DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS 
False
DECIMAL_SEPARATOR 
'.'
DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD 
'django.db.models.BigAutoField'
DEFAULT_CHARSET 
'utf-8'
DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER 
'django.views.debug.ExceptionReporter'
DEFAULT_EXCEPTION_REPORTER_FILTER 
'django.views.debug.SafeExceptionReporterFilter'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL 
'webmaster@localhost'
DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE 
''
DEFAULT_TABLESPACE 
''
DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS 
[]
EMAIL_BACKEND 
'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST 
'localhost'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD 
'********************'
EMAIL_HOST_USER 
''
EMAIL_PORT 
25
EMAIL_SSL_CERTFILE 
None
EMAIL_SSL_KEYFILE 
'********************'
EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX 
'[Django] '
EMAIL_TIMEOUT 
None
EMAIL_USE_LOCALTIME 
False
EMAIL_USE_SSL 
False
EMAIL_USE_TLS 
False
FILE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_PERMISSIONS 
None
FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS 
['django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler',
 'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler']
FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE 
2621440
FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS 
420
FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR 
None
FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK 
0
FIXTURE_DIRS 
[]
FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME 
None
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH 
None
FORMS_URLFIELD_ASSUME_HTTPS 
False
FORM_RENDERER 
'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'
IGNORABLE_404_URLS 
[]
INSTALLED_APPS 
['django.contrib.admin',
 'django.contrib.auth',
 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
 'django.contrib.sessions',
 'django.contrib.messages',
 'django.contrib.staticfiles',
 'corsheaders',
 'rest_framework',
 'rest_framework_simplejwt',
 'app.apps.AppConfig']
INTERNAL_IPS 
[]
LANGUAGES 
[('af', 'Afrikaans'),
 ('ar', 'Arabic'),
 ('ar-dz', 'Algerian Arabic'),
 ('ast', 'Asturian'),
 ('az', 'Azerbaijani'),
 ('bg', 'Bulgarian'),
 ('be', 'Belarusian'),
 ('bn', 'Bengali'),
 ('br', 'Breton'),
 ('bs', 'Bosnian'),
 ('ca', 'Catalan'),
 ('ckb', 'Central Kurdish (Sorani)'),
 ('cs', 'Czech'),
 ('cy', 'Welsh'),
 ('da', 'Danish'),
 ('de', 'German'),
 ('dsb', 'Lower Sorbian'),
 ('el', 'Greek'),
 ('en', 'English'),
 ('en-au', 'Australian English'),
 ('en-gb', 'British English'),
 ('eo', 'Esperanto'),
 ('es', 'Spanish'),
 ('es-ar', 'Argentinian Spanish'),
 ('es-co', 'Colombian Spanish'),
 ('es-mx', 'Mexican Spanish'),
 ('es-ni', 'Nicaraguan Spanish'),
 ('es-ve', 'Venezuelan Spanish'),
 ('et', 'Estonian'),
 ('eu', 'Basque'),
 ('fa', 'Persian'),
 ('fi', 'Finnish'),
 ('fr', 'French'),
 ('fy', 'Frisian'),
 ('ga', 'Irish'),
 ('gd', 'Scottish Gaelic'),
 ('gl', 'Galician'),
 ('he', 'Hebrew'),
 ('hi', 'Hindi'),
 ('hr', 'Croatian'),
 ('hsb', 'Upper Sorbian'),
 ('hu', 'Hungarian'),
 ('hy', 'Armenian'),
 ('ia', 'Interlingua'),
 ('id', 'Indonesian'),
 ('ig', 'Igbo'),
 ('io', 'Ido'),
 ('is', 'Icelandic'),
 ('it', 'Italian'),
 ('ja', 'Japanese'),
 ('ka', 'Georgian'),
 ('kab', 'Kabyle'),
 ('kk', 'Kazakh'),
 ('km', 'Khmer'),
 ('kn', 'Kannada'),
 ('ko', 'Korean'),
 ('ky', 'Kyrgyz'),
 ('lb', 'Luxembourgish'),
 ('lt', 'Lithuanian'),
 ('lv', 'Latvian'),
 ('mk', 'Macedonian'),
 ('ml', 'Malayalam'),
 ('mn', 'Mongolian'),
 ('mr', 'Marathi'),
 ('ms', 'Malay'),
 ('my', 'Burmese'),
 ('nb', 'Norwegian Bokmål'),
 ('ne', 'Nepali'),
 ('nl', 'Dutch'),
 ('nn', 'Norwegian Nynorsk'),
 ('os', 'Ossetic'),
 ('pa', 'Punjabi'),
 ('pl', 'Polish'),
 ('pt', 'Portuguese'),
 ('pt-br', 'Brazilian Portuguese'),
 ('ro', 'Romanian'),
 ('ru', 'Russian'),
 ('sk', 'Slovak'),
 ('sl', 'Slovenian'),
 ('sq', 'Albanian'),
 ('sr', 'Serbian'),
 ('sr-latn', 'Serbian Latin'),
 ('sv', 'Swedish'),
 ('sw', 'Swahili'),
 ('ta', 'Tamil'),
 ('te', 'Telugu'),
 ('tg', 'Tajik'),
 ('th', 'Thai'),
 ('tk', 'Turkmen'),
 ('tr', 'Turkish'),
 ('tt', 'Tatar'),
 ('udm', 'Udmurt'),
 ('ug', 'Uyghur'),
 ('uk', 'Ukrainian'),
 ('ur', 'Urdu'),
 ('uz', 'Uzbek'),
 ('vi', 'Vietnamese'),
 ('zh-hans', 'Simplified Chinese'),
 ('zh-hant', 'Traditional Chinese')]
LANGUAGES_BIDI 
['he', 'ar', 'ar-dz', 'ckb', 'fa', 'ug', 'ur']
LANGUAGE_CODE 
'en-us'
LANGUAGE_COOKIE_AGE 
None
LANGUAGE_COOKIE_DOMAIN 
None
LANGUAGE_COOKIE_HTTPONLY 
False
LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME 
'django_language'
LANGUAGE_COOKIE_PATH 
'/'
LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SAMESITE 
None
LANGUAGE_COOKIE_SECURE 
False
LOCALE_PATHS 
[]
LOGGING 
{}
LOGGING_CONFIG 
'logging.config.dictConfig'
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL 
'/accounts/profile/'
LOGIN_URL 
'/accounts/login/'
LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL 
None
MANAGERS 
[]
MEDIA_ROOT 
'/home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/media'
MEDIA_URL 
'/media/'
MESSAGE_STORAGE 
'django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback.FallbackStorage'
MIDDLEWARE 
['corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware']
MIGRATION_MODULES 
{}
MONTH_DAY_FORMAT 
'F j'
NUMBER_GROUPING 
0
PASSWORD_HASHERS 
'********************'
PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT 
'********************'
PREPEND_WWW 
False
REST_FRAMEWORK 
{'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': ('rest_framework_simplejwt.authentication.JWTAuthentication',)}
ROOT_URLCONF 
'backend.urls'
SECRET_KEY 
'********************'
SECRET_KEY_FALLBACKS 
'********************'
SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF 
True
SECURE_CROSS_ORIGIN_OPENER_POLICY 
'same-origin'
SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS 
False
SECURE_HSTS_PRELOAD 
False
SECURE_HSTS_SECONDS 
0
SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER 
None
SECURE_REDIRECT_EXEMPT 
[]
SECURE_REFERRER_POLICY 
'same-origin'
SECURE_SSL_HOST 
None
SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT 
False
SERVER_EMAIL 
'root@localhost'
SESSION_CACHE_ALIAS 
'default'
SESSION_COOKIE_AGE 
1209600
SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN 
None
SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY 
True
SESSION_COOKIE_NAME 
'sessionid'
SESSION_COOKIE_PATH 
'/'
SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE 
'Lax'
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE 
False
SESSION_ENGINE 
'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db'
SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE 
False
SESSION_FILE_PATH 
None
SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST 
False
SESSION_SERIALIZER 
'django.contrib.sessions.serializers.JSONSerializer'
SETTINGS_MODULE 
'backend.settings'
SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT 
'm/d/Y P'
SHORT_DATE_FORMAT 
'm/d/Y'
SIGNING_BACKEND 
'django.core.signing.TimestampSigner'
SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS 
[]
STATICFILES_DIRS 
[]
STATICFILES_FINDERS 
['django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder']
STATIC_ROOT 
'/home/ubuntu/alcodeBackend/static'
STATIC_URL 
'/static/'
STORAGES 
{'default': {'BACKEND': 'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage'},
 'staticfiles': {'BACKEND': 'django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage'}}
TEMPLATES 
[]
TEST_NON_SERIALIZED_APPS 
[]
TEST_RUNNER 
'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner'
THOUSAND_SEPARATOR 
','
TIME_FORMAT 
'P'
TIME_INPUT_FORMATS 
['%H:%M:%S', '%H:%M:%S.%f', '%H:%M']
TIME_ZONE 
'UTC'
USE_I18N 
True
USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR 
False
USE_TZ 
True
USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST 
False
USE_X_FORWARDED_PORT 
False
WSGI_APPLICATION 
'backend.wsgi.application'
X_FRAME_OPTIONS 
'DENY'
YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT 
'F Y'

You’re seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard page generated by the handler for this status code.

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Welcome @hanabalihamza !

First, a couple of side notes.

  • Please post a short identification of your error as the title of your topics, not a “Please help” type title.
  • When posting information about an error, copy/paste the error and traceback from the server console, not the browser.

Now, regarding this issue you’re reporting here, please post your TEMPLATES setting from your settings.py file.