if you create your index.html file on templates/index.html,then you can use this settings on your settings.py file:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        #  Add  'TEMPLATE_DIR' here
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR,"templates")],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

then in your view you need to render that file:

def home(request):
    return render(request, 'index.html', context=context)

You have to use a TemplateView. It is just a simple view that serve a template html.

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

class IndexView(TemplateView):
    template_name = "PATH_TO_INDEXHTML"

Just add an url in urls.py for serving this view and let’s go

from django.urls import path

from .views import IndexView

urlpatterns = [
    path('index', IndexView.as_view(),
]

More information about templateview: https://docs.djangoproject.com/fr/4.1/ref/class-based-views/base/#django.views.generic.base.TemplateView

My index is loading well on browser, but when I click home page, there is nothing 404 error, is responding static/index.html, (when I click home page or any other such as contact, it is searching for html in static) why is it asking for index.html in static files and how can I rectify that?[

I stored my html files on templates folder thinking that when i clicked my dropdown, they were going to apper on my web.