PasswordResetView, PasswordResetDoneView, PasswordResetConfirmView, & PasswordResetCompleteView not discovering custom template

[Brylie Christopher Oxley]

While defining URLs for a user password reset flow, I am using standard Django views such as PasswordResetView.

path(
    "password_reset/",
    django.contrib.auth.views.PasswordResetView.as_view(),
    name="password_reset",
),
path(
    "password_reset/done/",
    auth_views.PasswordResetDoneView.as_view(
        template_name="accounts/password_reset_done.html",
    ),
    name="password_reset_done",
),
path(
    "reset/<uidb64>/<token>/",
    auth_views.PasswordResetConfirmView.as_view(),
    name="password_reset_confirm",
),
path(
    "reset/done/",
    auth_views.PasswordResetCompleteView.as_view(),
    name="password_reset_complete",
),

The ​PasswordResetView, ​PasswordResetDoneView, ​PasswordResetConfirmView and ​PasswordResetCompleteView docs say Django will look for templates called registration/* and render those if available.

When I define templates with the documented name and location, the custom templates are not discovered by Django. Instead, the default Django Admin templates are rendered. This is despite other built in views like LoginView being able to fine conventionally named templates in the same directory.

Of note, the problematic views are all part of the password reset flow.

In order to work around the issue, I have had to move the custom template to a different template path specified via the template_name argument to the PasswordResetView:

path(
    "password_reset/",
    django.contrib.auth.views.PasswordResetView.as_view(
        template_name="accounts/password_reset_form.html",
    ),
    name="password_reset",
),
path(
    "password_reset/done/",
    auth_views.PasswordResetDoneView.as_view(),
    name="password_reset_done",
),
path(
    "reset/<uidb64>/<token>/",
    auth_views.PasswordResetConfirmView.as_view(
        template_name="accounts/password_reset_confirm.html",
    ),
    name="password_reset_confirm",
),
path(
    "reset/done/",
    auth_views.PasswordResetCompleteView.as_view(
        template_name="accounts/password_reset_complete.html",
    ),
    name="password_reset_complete",
),

In honesty, it is very possible that I have made a typo in the file name, but I have tried multiple times with the same result.

[Brylie Christopher Oxley]

I realized this issue affects all four views involved in the password reset flow.