Django-allauth with Django 1.8+
I just installed Django-allauth (0.23) for my project and I had some bumps. Here are the solutions I have found to those. The official documentation is here.
ImportError: No module named context_processors
I ran into an error message that appears to be quite common with django-allauth. It led me to a lot of Googling, most of which led me to do the wrong thing. I think those solutions might have worked at one time and my solution may not work in the future. For now, this is what worked in my settings.py.
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ( 'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth', 'django.template.context_processors.request', 'django.template.context_processors.debug', 'django.core.context_processors.static', 'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages', 'django.core.context_processors.request', 'allauth.socialaccount.context_processors.socialaccount' ) TEMPLATES = [ { 'BACKEND':'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates', 'DIRS': ['templates', ], path to your templates folder 'APP_DIRS': True, 'OPTIONS': { 'context_processors': [ Already defined Django-related contexts here 'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth', `allauth` needs this from django "django.template.context_processors.request", "allauth.account.context_processors.account", "allauth.socialaccount.context_processors.socialaccount", "django.template.context_processors.static", ], }, }, ]
My own templates could not be found
As of this writing, the official documentation tells you to leave the ‘DIRS’ in TEMPLATES empty. That is wrong. Without the path to your own templates, they will not load. I changed that in the TEMPLATES entry above. This however led me to a different problem…
My templates load but the allauth templates do not
It turned out that I was using my own base.html in my templates, but allauth uses base.html as well. This caused a collision, so if my project’s base.html was found, it loaded my project’s template but if my project’s templates could not be found, it loaded the allauth template. This was easily solved by changing the name of my base.html and, of course, editing the templates that extended it.
What is the link to the allauth url?
This is something that really took me time to figure out. I tried account/login, /account/login/, accounts.login as well as other variations on this theme. I finally worked it out. You have to reference account + underscore + the page you want to link to. For example:` href=“{% url 'account_login’ %}”`. I could have figured this out sooner if I had looked at the allauth account app urls.py where these things are named. I parsed the urls.py in a spreadsheet that you can view here.
Where are the allauth source files?
If you want to look at urls.py as well as the other source files on you computer, they are located in your python site-packages folder. On my Mac, that path is: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/allauth. I have put my edited version of the directory tree here.
How id I customize the Allauth templates?
The easiest way I found is to just copy them to a new folder named account in your project’s template folder. For example, MyProject/templates/account.
File not found – http://127.0.0.1:8000/accounts/profile/
This can be solved by adding `LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = ’/’` to your settings.py. **Why does it go to accounts/profile?** Allauth is a wrapper for the Django authentication system and this is the default behavior of the Django login system. From the docs:
“If called via POST with user submitted credentials, it tries to log the user in. If login is successful, the view redirects to the URL specified in next. If next isn’t provided, it redirects to settings.LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL (which defaults to /accounts/profile/). If login is’t successful, it redisplays the login form.”
How do I redirect to a page that is not my home page?
You cannot accomplish this by putting the relative path in LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL. It will take you to /account/login/page_you_put_in. One way to accomplish this is through inheritance. Put this in one of your project’s files:
from allauth.account.adapter import DefaultAccountAdapter class MyAccountAdapter(DefaultAccountAdapter): def get_login_redirect_url(self, request): return relative_path_of_page
and make a reference to that in your settings.py, for example:
ADAPTER = "app.views.MyAccountAdapter" ACCOUNT_ADAPTER = "app.views.MyAccountAdapter"
How do I automatically redirect to the page the user was on when they clicked to log in?
After a successful login, I want to take the user back to where they were. Using “next” did not work for me. The way I ended up doing it is not pretty but here are the steps:
Make a simple page. I called mine goback.html. Don’t use a template. You will just add a layer of complexity. goback.html will just be some javascript that takes you back. You can use `location.back(-#)`, but the page won’t reload.
If you want to refresh the page, use a cookie. Choose pages that the user would want to return to after login and place a cookie containing the full path on page load. You can get the path of the current page using window.location.href. I used a cookie that I called 'breadcrumb’ which I used to keep track. In goback.html, retrieve the cookie and use location.assign(cookie) to navigate back. location.assign() will take you back and reload the page. here is a link to the html that you can copy.
In MyAccountAdapter (see above), return the relative path of goback.html.
url(’^goback/$’,views.goback)
Add a view to your views.py.
Please leave a comment if you find errors on this page or a better way to do any of this.
