How to redirect users to a specific url after registration in django registration?

Question

So I am using django-registration app to implement a user registration page for my site. I used Django's backends.simple views which allows the users to immediately login after registration. My question is how do I redirect them to my other app's page located in the same directory as the project.

Here is what my main urls.py looks like:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
# from django.contrib import admin
# admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',

    url(r'^accounts/', include('registration.backends.simple.urls')),
    url(r'^upload/', include('mysite.fileupload.urls')),
    # Examples:
    # url(r'^$', 'mysite.views.home', name='home'),
    # url(r'^mysite/', include('mysite.foo.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
    # url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    # url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

import os
urlpatterns += patterns('',
        (r'^media/(.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), 'media')}),
)

fileupload is the name of the other app I have in the project directory mysite.

This is what the backends.simple.urls looks like:

"""
URLconf for registration and activation, using django-registration's
one-step backend.

If the default behavior of these views is acceptable to you, simply
use a line like this in your root URLconf to set up the default URLs
for registration::

    (r'^accounts/', include('registration.backends.simple.urls')),

This will also automatically set up the views in
``django.contrib.auth`` at sensible default locations.

If you'd like to customize registration behavior, feel free to set up
your own URL patterns for these views instead.

"""


from django.conf.urls import include
from django.conf.urls import patterns
from django.conf.urls import url
from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView

from registration.backends.simple.views import RegistrationView


urlpatterns = patterns('',
                       url(r'^register/$',
                           RegistrationView.as_view(),
                           name='registration_register'),
                       url(r'^register/closed/$',
                           TemplateView.as_view(template_name='registration/registration_closed.html'),
                           name='registration_disallowed'),
                       (r'', include('registration.auth_urls')),
                       )

And here is the backends.simple.views:

from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
from django.contrib.auth import login
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

from registration import signals
from registration.views import RegistrationView as BaseRegistrationView


class RegistrationView(BaseRegistrationView):
    """
    A registration backend which implements the simplest possible
    workflow: a user supplies a username, email address and password
    (the bare minimum for a useful account), and is immediately signed
    up and logged in).

    """
    def register(self, request, **cleaned_data):
        username, email, password = cleaned_data['username'], cleaned_data['email'], cleaned_data['password1']
        User.objects.create_user(username, email, password)

        new_user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
        login(request, new_user)
        signals.user_registered.send(sender=self.__class__,
                                     user=new_user,
                                     request=request)
        return new_user

    def registration_allowed(self, request):
        """
        Indicate whether account registration is currently permitted,
        based on the value of the setting ``REGISTRATION_OPEN``. This
        is determined as follows:

        * If ``REGISTRATION_OPEN`` is not specified in settings, or is
          set to ``True``, registration is permitted.

        * If ``REGISTRATION_OPEN`` is both specified and set to
          ``False``, registration is not permitted.

        """
        return getattr(settings, 'REGISTRATION_OPEN', True)

    def get_success_url(self, request, user):
        return (user.get_absolute_url(), (), {})

I tried the changing the get_success_url function to just return the url I want which is /upload/new but it still redirected me to users/insert username page and gave an error. How do I redirect the user to the upload/new page where the other app resides after registration?

Answer 1

Don't change the code in the registration module. Instead, subclass the RegistrationView, and override the get_success_url method to return the url you want.

from registration.backends.simple.views import RegistrationView

class MyRegistrationView(RegistrationView):
    def get_success_url(self, request, user):
        return "/upload/new"

Then include your custom registration view in your main urls.py, instead of including the simple backend urls.

urlpatterns = [
    # your custom registration view
    url(r'^register/$', MyRegistrationView.as_view(), name='registration_register'),
    # the rest of the views from the simple backend
    url(r'^register/closed/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='registration/registration_closed.html'),
                          name='registration_disallowed'),
    url(r'', include('registration.auth_urls')),
]