# Slim Application Error - View cannot render
**URL:** https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/slim-application-error-view-cannot-render/2114
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** [December 28, 2017, 11:25am UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/slim-application-error-view-cannot-render/2114 "2017-12-28T11:25:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@xpico](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/xpico)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2017, 11:25am UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/slim-application-error-view-cannot-render/2114/1 "2017-12-28T11:25:16Z")
Hi,
I’m new with Slim and I’m trying to do the first aplication tutorial but i have an error.
They say me: View cannot render `tickets.phtml` because the template does not exist
In index.php i put this to set template directory:
`$container['view'] = new \Slim\Views\PhpRenderer("../templates/");`
And this is my folder structure:
```
/project
/src
/public
index.php
/templates
tickets.phtml
```
What I’m doing wrong?
Thanks,
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### Author:  [@tflight](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/tflight)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2017, 12:01pm UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/slim-application-error-view-cannot-render/2114/2 "2017-12-28T12:01:42Z")
Try single quotes around the directory?
```php
$container['view'] = new \Slim\Views\PhpRenderer('../templates/');
```
Otherwise, what I see there looks good.
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### Author:  [@xpico](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/xpico)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/slim-application-error-view-cannot-render/2114/3 "2017-12-28T12:26:41Z")
I try with single quotes and nothing, continue with same error.
I’m stay debugging and I see in /vendor/slim/php-view/src/PhpRenderer.php in line 153 this:
```
if (!is_file($this->templatePath . $template)) {
throw new \RuntimeException("View cannot render `$template` because the template does not exist");
}
```
The problem is that $this-\>templatePath . $template is this ‘’…/templates/ticketadd.phtml" and the is\_file function return false, so !false its true and throw that exception.
What do you thing was the problem?
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### Author:  [@tflight](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/tflight)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/slim-application-error-view-cannot-render/2114/4 "2017-12-28T13:04:33Z")
Is the logger successfully logging to `/logs/app.log`?
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### Author:  [@xpico](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/xpico)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2017, 1:25pm UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/slim-application-error-view-cannot-render/2114/5 "2017-12-28T13:25:45Z")
Yes, the logger is logging successfully.
This is my logger:
```
$container['logger'] = function($c) {
$logger = new \Monolog\Logger('Slim_logger');
$file_handler = new \Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler("../logs/app.log");
$logger->pushHandler($file_handler);
return $logger;
};
```
And here is the folder:
```
/project
/logs
app.log
/src
/public
index.php
/templates
tickets.phtml
```
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### Author:  [@xpico](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/xpico)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/slim-application-error-view-cannot-render/2114/6 "2017-12-28T13:32:26Z")
in order if I use $container[‘renderer’] instead of $container[‘view’] like this works well:
```
use Slim\Views\PhpRenderer;
$container['renderer'] = new PhpRenderer("./templates");
$app->get('/tickets', function (Request $request, Response $response) {
$mapper = new TicketMapper($this->db);
$tickets = $mapper->getTickets();
$response = $this->renderer->render($response, "tickets.phtml", ["tickets" => $tickets]);
return $response;
}
```
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### Author:  [@llvdl](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/llvdl)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/slim-application-error-view-cannot-render/2114/7 "2017-12-31T00:20:24Z")
> [@xpico](#):
>
> $container[‘view’] = new \Slim\Views\PhpRenderer(“../templates/”);
> [@xpico](#):
>
> $container[‘renderer’] = new PhpRenderer(“./templates”);
I think it is because you used `"./templates"` instead of `../templates/`. It seems `./templates` is correct, which is strange because `index.php` is in `/public` 😕
You can use [` __DIR__ `](http://php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php) for a path relative to the directory of the current file, so you point to a directory regardless of the current directory of the main PHP script. If you use
```php
$container['view'] = new \Slim\Views\PhpRenderer( __DIR__. '/../templates/');
```
in `project/public/index.php`, then it should correctly point to the `/project/templates/` directory.