Stuck with TemplateDoesNotExist at /

Hi, I am total newbie when it comes to both Python and Django. I followed few tutorials but still can't get things to click at all. Now I am trying to follow the tutorial from http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com. I use PyCharm as an ide and generated from there the starting project. My problem is that no matter what I do I always get an error 

"TemplateDoesNotExist at /"

I began following the tutorial to the point but trying to overcome the problem I did a few changes. Right now I have a folder structure like this:

microblog/

├── manage.py

├── microblog

│   ├── __init__.py

│   ├── __init__.pyc

│   ├── settings

│   │   ├── base.py

│   │   ├── base.pyc

│   │   ├── __init__.py

│   │   ├── __init__.pyc

│   │   ├── local.py

│   │   └── local.pyc

│   ├── urls.py

│   ├── urls.pyc

│   ├── views.py

│   ├── wsgi.py

│   └── wsgi.pyc

├── requirements.txt

└── templates

    ├── 500.html

    └── index.html

In my base.py which is equivalent to settings.py I have 

import os

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))) 

...

TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (

    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',

    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',

    'django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader',

)

...

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (

    os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'templates'),

)

In my urls.py

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

...

  url(r'^$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="index.html")),

and my views.py:

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

class HomepageView(TemplateView):

    template_name = "index.html"

But still when I run the runserver from PyCharm or from command line I still get

Django tried loading these templates, in this order:

• Using loader django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader:
  • /home/voger/PycharmProjects/microblog/microblog/templates/index.html (File does not exist)   <---- This one I am sure it does
• Using loader django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader:
  • /home/voger/blog-venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/templates/index.html (File does not exist)
  • /home/voger/blog-venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/index.html (File does not exist)
• Using loader django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader:

 

Can you please help me figure what is wrong? 

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