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Aseem
Aseem

Reputation: 6779

django-registration invalid activation key error but user account gets activated

When I click on activation link http://127.0.0.1:8000/core/auth/activate/aoisdoaisdoaisdoiaj/ I am taken to an activation_failed page which says - The activation key you provided is invalid. But my account in the database gets activated too.

If the account is being activated that means activation was successful, then why would django-registration redirect to failed page? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 333

Answers (2)

samuraisam
samuraisam

Reputation: 1947

You are being redirected to activation/complete/ and your custom activation URL is catching this URL. To restore the built in behavior, add a URL pattern above your custom activation URL like so:

path("activate/complete/", 
         TemplateView.as_view(template_name="django_registration/activation_complete.html"),
         name="django_registration_activation_complete")

Upvotes: 0

Aseem
Aseem

Reputation: 6779

There are 2 urls in django-registration/backends/activation/urls.py that create complications which is hard to figure out for a django rookie like myself : Lets call them url1 and url2 as per order shown below.

  1. "activate/complete/"
  2. "activate/<str:activation_key>/"

They are strategically ordered in original urls.py. But since I overwrote ActivationView class, I had to overwrite the url2 "activate/<str:activation_key>/". That changed the original order and django started looking for url2 before url1. As you can see that any url of format /activate/xyz/ can qualify as url2. Hence /activate/complete/ also called view in url2.

Solution: change name of url1 to something like activation/complete/ and it all works fine

That put

Upvotes: 1

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