jinja2 - Django not looking in the correct place for jinja templates? -

i following thread here... how use jinja2 templating engine in django 1.8

i can't seem find solid docs on switching jinja2 templates , how setup django it. docs seem have gaps, or missing somehting obvious. anyway, set thread above, except when try go somewhere template loaded get...

templatedoesnotexist  django tried loading these templates, in order:     ... 

but not list of jinja/ template directories specified. why be?

edit adding trace , settings:

templates = (     {         'backend': 'askbot.skins.template_backends.askbotskintemplates',     },     {         'backend': 'django.template.backends.jinja2.jinja2',         'dirs': [os.path.join(project_root, 'templates/jinja2')],         'app_dirs': true,         'options': {'environment': 'myproject.jinja-import.environment',},      },     {         'backend': 'django.template.backends.django.djangotemplates',         'dirs': [             os.path.join(project_root, 'templates',),         ],         'app_dirs': true,         'options': {             'context_processors': [                 'django.core.context_processors.request',                 'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',             ]         }     }, )  traceback: file "/home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django-1.8.8-py2.7.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response   132.                     response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) file "/home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/langalang/main/views.py" in page   71.       context_instance=requestcontext(request, context)) file "/home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django-1.8.8-py2.7.egg/django/shortcuts.py" in render   89.             using=using) file "/home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django-1.8.8-py2.7.egg/django/template/loader.py" in render_to_string   137.             raise templatedoesnotexist(template_name)  exception type: templatedoesnotexist @ /ko/ exception value: main/page.html  template loader error: django tried loading these templates, in order: using loader django.template.loaders.filesystem.loader: /home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/langalang/templates/main/page.html (file not exist) using loader django.template.loaders.app_directories.loader: /home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django-1.8.8-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/auth/templates/main/page.html (file not exist) /home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django-1.8.8-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/admin/templates/main/page.html (file not exist) /home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django-1.8.8-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/sitemaps/templates/main/page.html (file not exist) /home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_compressor-1.5-py2.7.egg/compressor/templates/main/page.html (file not exist) /home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/langalang/askbot-dev/askbot/templates/main/page.html (file not exist) /home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_robots-1.1-py2.7.egg/robots/templates/main/page.html (file not exist) /home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_celery-3.1.17-py2.7.egg/djcelery/templates/main/page.html (file not exist) /home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_tinymce-1.5.3-py2.7.egg/tinymce/templates/main/page.html (file not exist) /home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_recaptcha-1.0.5-py2.7.egg/captcha/templates/main/page.html (file not exist) /home/jeff/django/langalang-askbot/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_avatar-2.2.1-py2.7.egg/avatar/templates/main/page.html (file not exist) 

view loading template:

def page(request, page_title='home'):       context = {         'page_title': page_title     }      if page_title == 'home':         #this query pulls language instructions objects , orders alphabetically 'full_title' field         language_pairs = langpairinstruction.objects.filter(active=true).order_by('full_title')         context['language_pairs'] = language_pairs      elif page_title == 'contact':         form_class = contactform(initial={'subject': _('subject'), 'name': _('name'), 'email': _('email'), 'content': _('content')})         context['contactform'] = form_class      elif page_title == 'about':         pass      else:         raise http404      return render(         request,          'main/page.html',          context_instance=requestcontext(request, context))