What more do I need to do to have Django's @login_required decorator work?

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Christos Hayward picture Christos Hayward · Dec 9, 2013 · Viewed 16.5k times · Source

I am trying to use Django's account system, including the @login_required decorator. My settings.py file includes django.contrib.auth and I have done a syncdb.

Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://localhost:8000/accounts/login/?next=/
Using the URLconf defined in dashboard.urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
^$ [name='home']
The current URL, accounts/login/, didn't match any of these.
You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page.

I see the above after trying to @login_required-decorate my home view.

It seems to be choking because it is redirected to accounts/login/, which I have not prepared for in my urls.py.

What can I add to urls.py or elsewhere so that the login_required decorator will do its usual behaviour?

Thanks,

Answer

keyser picture keyser · Dec 9, 2013

Set the LOGIN_URL in your settings. The default value is '/accounts/login/'

The decorator also takes an optional login_url argument:

@login_required(login_url='/accounts/login/')

And, from the docs:

Note that if you don’t specify the login_url parameter, you’ll need to ensure that the settings.LOGIN_URL and your login view are properly associated. For example, using the defaults, add the following line to your URLconf:

(r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login'),

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