Question

I would like to allow the user to change the password and I am using the django-in-built password_change function. I would like to use the default template-name and password_change_form but I want to change the post_change_redirect argument to specific to my website.

How do I change that only while keeping the rest the same?

From Django Documentation:

password_change(request[, template_name, post_change_redirect, password_change_form])
Allows a user to change their password.

URL name: password_change

Optional arguments:

template_name: The full name of a template to use for displaying the password change form. Defaults to registration/password_change_form.html if not supplied.
post_change_redirect: The URL to redirect to after a successful password change.
password_change_form: A custom "change password" form which must accept a user keyword argument. The form is responsible for actually changing the user's password. Defaults to PasswordChangeForm.
Template context:

form: The password change form (see password_change_form above).

Need some guidance. Thanks.

Answer 1

You want to define a view, which will be serving a modified password_change view:

from django.contrib.auth.views import password_change

def change_password(request):
    return password_change(request, post_change_redirect='%my_post_change_url%')

And that’s all.

You must only remember that, it’ll redirect you to the default login-page if you’re not logged-in and that you have to write a password change page template (named registration/password_change_form.html by default)