Django Authentication system modifications

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I am new to Django Authentication system and I am unable to find the correct debugging method.

I want to create a function to handle login requests and I have done the necessary steps to do the same.

  1. created a login url path in main project URLS.py file.

     path('members/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),
 path('members/', include('members.urls')),

  2. created a login url in members app to point to a function created in views.py

    urlpatterns = [
 path('login/', views.login_user, name='login'),]

  3. defined what to do when user comes to specific url

    def login_user(request):
 if request.method == 'POST':
     print('-'*100)
     username = request.POST['username']
     password = request.POST['password']
     user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password)
     if user is not None:
         login(request, user)
         messages.success(request, ("You are now logged in"))
         return redirect('index')
     else:
         messages.success(request, ("Invalid credentials"))
         return redirect('login')
 return render(request, 'registration/Login.html')

  4. I have created a Login Page in templates folder.

    {% extends 'Base.html'%}
{% block title %}
     Login to the Blog Page
 {% endblock %}
{% block content%}
<h1>Members Login</h1>
<div class="form-group">

 <form method="POST" action="">
     {% csrf_token %}
     <div class="mb-3">
         <label for="exampleInputEmail1" class="form-label">User Name</label>
         <input type="text" class="form-control" name = "username">
         <div id="emailHelp" class="form-text">We'll never share your email with 
anyone else.</div>
       </div>
       <div class="mb-3">
         <label for="exampleInputPassword1" class="form-label">Password</label>
         <input type="password" class="form-control" name="password">
       </div>
     <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Login</button>
  </form>
 <br>
 </div>
{% endblock %}

Now when I get to the /members/login after submitting the user details the print statement in post method is not printed in the console. So I am suspecting that the post request is not being redirected to the login_user function. Can anyone help me out to identify why?

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1 Answers

Djnago will fire the view that it first finds for the path members/login, and that is the login view of the django.contrib.auth module. You can swap the order of the views to visit the login view of your view:

urlpatterns = [
    path('members/', include('members.urls')),  # 🖘 `members.urls first
    path('members/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls'))
]

But it might be better to give your view a different path, to prevent any confusion.

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