Django: How can I apply the login_required decorator to my entire site (excluding static media)?

Question

The example provides a snippet for an application level view, but what if I have lots of different (and some non-application) entries in my \"urls.py\" file, including templ

Answer 1

Here's an example for new-style middleware in Django 1.10+:

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.urls import reverse

def login_required_middleware(get_response):
    """
        Require user to be logged in for all views. 
    """
    exceptions = {'/admin/login/'}
    def middleware(request):
        if request.path in exceptions:
            return get_response(request)
        return login_required(get_response, login_url=reverse('admin:login'))(request)
    return middleware

This example exempts the admin login form to avoid redirect loop, and uses that form as the login url.