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Reputation: 121

Override the accounts/login/ in Django

So I'm using django.contrib.auth.urls and I would prefer to continue that. But I want the accounts/login url to be replaced with users/c-login or whatever.

I would really like to understand why this is not working:

my urls.py (project):

from core import views

urlpatterns = [
    path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
    path("accounts/", include("django.contrib.auth.urls")),
    path("", include("core.urls")),
    path("user/", include("user.urls")),
    path("accounts/login", views.atest, name="login"),
    path("accounts/login/", views.atest, name="login"),
]

The idea here was that

path("accounts/login/", views.atest, name="login"),

should "replace" the django auth urls.

views.py user app:

def atest(request):
    return redirect("c-login")

And the custom login views.py user app:

def custom_login(request):
    template_name = "registration/login.html"

Any help appreciated. Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 45

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 121

Comment from raphael answers the question 100%! Django looks at your url patterns in order until it finds one that matches, so path("accounts/login", views.atest, name="login") will not ever be seen because path("accounts/", include("django.contrib.auth.urls")) matches first. Having said that, if all you want to do is create a user registration page, or style the login page, then you don't need this.

Check out developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Django/… (especially developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Django/…) –

Upvotes: 0

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