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

As of August 2020, django.contrib.admin.sites.AdminSite has a login_template attribute. So you can just subclass AdminSite and specify a custom template i.e.,

class MyAdminSite(AdminSite):
    login_template = 'my_login_template.html'

my_admin_site = MyAdminSite()

Then just use my_admin_site everywhere instead of admin.site.

Answer 2

Holá
I found a very simple solution.
Just tell django that the url for admin login is handle by your own login view

You just need to modify the urls.py fle of the project (note, not the application one)

1. In your PROJECT folder locate the file urls.py.
2. Add this line to the imports section
   from your_app_name import views
3. Locate this line
   url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls))
4. Add above that line the following
   url(r'^admin/login/', views.your_login_view),

This is an example

    from django.conf.urls import include, url
    from django.contrib import admin

    from your_app import views

    urlpatterns = [
        url(r'^your_app_start/', include('your_app.urls',namespace="your_app_name")),

        url(r'^admin/login/', views.your_app_login),
        url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    ]

Answer 3

I had the same issue, tried to use the accepted answer, but has the same issue as pointed in the comment above. Then I've did something bit different, pasting here if this would be helpful to someone.

def staff_or_404(u):
    if u.is_active:
        if u.is_staff:
            return True
        raise Http404()
    return False

admin.site.login = user_passes_test(
        staff_or_404,
    )(admin.site.login)

The idea is that if the user is login, and tried to access the admin, then he gets 404. Otherwise, it will force you to the normal login page (unless you are already logged in)

Answer 4

You can redirect admin login url to the auth login view :

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    path('', include('your_app.urls')),
    path('accounts/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),
    path('admin/login/', RedirectView.as_view(url='/accounts/login/?next=/admin/', permanent=True)),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]