Django - login_required not redirecting

Question

I'm trying to make a view restricted unless login is done. Was following tuts+plus django unchained tutorial

However login_required decorator somehow is not doing the job. What am I doing wrong?

that part at views.py (login_required has been imported)

@login_required
def story(request):
    if request.method == "POST":
        form = StoryForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
                form.save()
                return HttpResponseRedirect('/')
    else:
        form = StoryForm()
    return render(request, 'stories/story.html', {'form': form})

no changes has been brought in urls.py. So I am hoping for an error where it can't find /login. But that somehow is not happening.

settings.py has LOGIN_URL = "/login/"

Answer 1

I'm not sure why this is happening. But for some reason in chrome the default story view is opening without redirecting to /login whereas it is working fine in Firefox. I tried clearing the cached images & files in Chrome, but it didn't help.

For now I'll just use Firefox to get through it.

Answer 2

Add an entry in urls.py like this:

(r'^login/$', 'login_view'),

Or you can use remove LOGIN_URL = "/login/" from your settings.py and use:

@login_required(login_url='/login/')

in both case you must add entry to urls.py

Answer 3

I had the same issue. I cleared Chrome chache but it didn't work . Now i am running it on Firefox and its running correctly

Answer 4

Make sure your chrome browser has cleared all of the browsing data, mind that time range choice all time, and then you will solve this problem. I alse encountered this issue, after using Firefox to work well, I got it.

Answer 5

通过 chrome DevTool -> Application -> Storage -> Cookies 清除页面 cookie 可以解决这个问题。

Answer 6

或者，您可以通过在 Google Chrome 的Incognito Window打开您的应用程序来修复此错误。

Answer 7

I had the same problem and I realized the browser identifies me as a logged-in user because I had logged in before as administrator in the admin page. I logged out of the admin page and the login_required decorator worked correctly.

Answer 8

I was able to resolve this by using the logout() function imported the same way as login() and that essentially "cleared" any existence of my already logged in user.

Make a logout view function/url route, run the app and call the url, then you will no longer be able to access the other view functions with the decorator unless logged in once again.