Question

I am having troubles with the redirect to the same page user was on after logging in, no matter how hard I tried and read all the questions here. I think it is high time I showed folks out here my code so if you can point out mistake(s). Thanks.

My login url (in base.html template):
This is present on every page. Changes to logout once the user is logged in. I read that I have to pass a param for example ‘next’ like this:

 <a href="/login/?next={{request.path}}">Login</a>

but,

*The {{request.path}} is always empty. *

login view:

def mylogin(request):
    """login view"""
    try:
        redirect_to = request.GET.get('next', '/')
    except ValueError:
        redirect_to = "/"

errors = ''
t = loader.get_template('login.html')


# check for POST data
if request.method == 'POST':
    username = request.POST['username']
    password = request.POST['password']
    user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
    if user is not None:
        if user.is_active:
            login(request, user)
            # Redirect to a success page.
            return HttpResponseRedirect(redirect_to)
        else:
            c = Context({
                'errors':'disabled',
            })
            return HttpResponse("disabled")
    else:
        c = Context({
            'errors':'incorrect',
        })
        return HttpResponse(t.render(c))
else:
    c = Context({
        'errors':None,
    })
    return HttpResponse(t.render(c))

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The login form, in login.html template

 <form method="post" action="?next={{ redirect_to }}" >
       <p><label for="username">Username</p>
       <p></label><input type="text" name="username" value="" id="username" /></p>
       <p><label for="password">Password</label></p>
       <p><input type="password" name="password" value="" id="password" /></p>
       <p><input type="submit" value="Login"></p>
 </form>

Answer 1

You’re not passing request to the template context, so naturally it’s empty. The easiest way to get it in there is to use a RequestContext, which uses the built-in context processors to add variables to the context.

The usual way to do this is to use render_to_response with the extra parameter context_instance=RequestContext(request). For some reason, you’re rendering all your templates the long way, so you’ll need to create that requestcontext yourself.

You’ll also need to add django.core.context_processors.request to the CONTEXT_PROCESSORS tuple ins settings.py.