How can I not use Django's admin login view?

Question

I created my own view for login. However if a user goes directly to /admin it brings them to the admin login page and doesn\'t use my custom view. How can I make it redirect

Answer 1

In your ROOT_URLCONF file (by default, it's urls.py in the project's root folder), is there a line like this:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
...
    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
...
)

If so, you'd want to replace include(admin.site.urls) with the custom view you created:

(r'^admin/', 'myapp.views.myloginview'),

or if your app has its own urls.py, you could include it like this:

(r'^admin/', include(myapp.urls)),