Question

I developed a django website on my local machine and now is the time to upload it on a server. I would like that during the time i work on it, only logged in users can see it.
I thought about a

{% if is_logged_in %}
{% else %}
{% endif %}

structure in my base.py template but not all my views return a Context so it doesn’t always work.

Is there any simple way without having to change much of code to hide every pages?

Answer 1

There are 2 reasonable solutions for this.

1. Using a middleware to demand authentication (if needed I can put an example online, but the code should be trivial)
2. Using authentication in your webservers. That way you can simply add a couple of IP addresses and/or users to have access. These days it’s pretty easy to link your http authentication to Django aswell so with both mod_wsgi and mod_python you can let Apache authenticate it’s users via Django.