Question

Hello? I am trying to redirect a particular user to a custom page once they log in in django. The Admin will be directed to their usual admin interface while this particular user will go to their own custom page.
I have written this code and placed it in my views

def custLogin(request):
    if request.user.username == '***':
        return HttpResponseRedirect('http://********************.html')
    else:
        return login(request,template_name='login.html')

I have pointed the accounts/login url in urls.py to custLogin as below

(r'^accounts/login/', custLogin),

I however keep getting the error

Caught NoReverseMatch while rendering: Reverse for 'django.contrib.auth.views.login' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{}' not found.

Any pointers please?

Answer 1

Maybe, you should use redirect shortcut, which returns an HttpResponseRedirect, to point your users to different places after custLogin view processed.

from django.shortcuts import redirect
def custLogin(request):
    if request.user.is_staff:
        return redirect('/some/admin/url')
    else:
        return redirect('/some/regular/user/url')

As documentation says, you can use the redirect() function in a number of ways: by passing a view name, an object or url. See documentation for more info

Note, that I use is_staff user field to determine: is user an admin or not.