Question

When a user logs in to a Django app, how do I change the URL of the page that shows up after they log in?
I currently have the following view:

def users_login(request):
  username = request.POST['username']
  password = request.POST['password']
  user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
  if user is not None:
    login(request, user)
    return HttpResponseRedirect("/start/")

I state that the app should redirect to domain.com/start/, but unfortunately, it does not. It instead goes to domain/login/, which is the location in the action attribute of the login form.

When I have the following code in my view:

return redirect('http://www.google.com/')

I get an error. I don’t understand why. It only happens with forms. After a user submits a form, the URL stays at the action attribute’s URL, even though the corresponding view has a redirect to a static page.

Answer 1

Eugene Soldatov is right,

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/start'

but you should use built-in login view to make it work (you should use it anyway).