I am using Django built in view for user login:
url(r\'^user/login/$\', \'django.contrib.auth.views.login\', {\'template_name\': \'users/templates/login.html\'},
django.contrib.auth.views.login redirects you to accounts/profile/ right after you log in. You may want to set LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL inside your settings.py file to anything you like..
django.contrib.auth.views.login
accounts/profile/
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL
settings.py