Re: Using the backend database to secure a page on the frontend

Looks like an issue with the location of the templete folder, your
TEMPLATE_LOADERS setting or TEMPLATE_DIRS if you put your templates
somewhere else.

Regards
Phil

On 30/03/2012 12:09, vanderkerkoff wrote:
> Thanks for getting back to me Phillip.
>
> I'm using that page as a guide, and i've got a pages application that
> has a registration_required boolean field setup.
>
> In my urls file I've got this
>
> (r'^login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login'),
>
> In my page view I'm doing this
>
> print pg.registration_required
> print request.user.is_authenticated()
> if pg.registration_required and not request.user.is_authenticated():
> return HttpResponseRedirect('/login/?next=%s' % request.path)
>
> I've setup the auth middleware and pg is the page.
>
> I can see that pg.registration_required is true, and that
> request.user.is_authenticated() is false, so the code is trying to
> send me to the login page.
>
> The docs say to create registration/login.html as that is the default.
>
> I've created a folder called registration in my templates folder, and
> a page called login.html in that folder, but the site is still
> throwing me a template not found error
>
> Request Method: GET
> Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/login/?next=/helpline2/
> Django Version: 1.3 beta 1 SVN-15046
> Exception Type: TemplateDoesNotExist
> Exception Value: registration/login.html
>
> I must be doing something dull, anyone got any ideas?
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 30, 11:02 am, Philip Mountifield<pmountifi...@formac.net>
> wrote:
>> If you want to use the existing permission system, I think you'll find
>> this is what you need:https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/auth/#the-permission-req...
>>
>> You could add some extra permissions to your models too if you need
>> them:https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/models/options/#permissions
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Phil
>>
>> On 30/03/2012 10:28, vanderkerkoff wrote:
>>
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>>> Hello there
>>> I"m sure this question has been answered before but I just can't find
>>> it, apologies.
>>> We've got a django 1.1.2 site and I need to secure some sections of
>>> the frontend, and use the users and groups model in the backend as the
>>> database to provide authentication.
>>> I really don't know where to start to be honest.
>>> Any links to examples would be great.
>>> What would be really great is if there's a way in the urls.py file to
>>> do something like this.
>>> from django.contrib.auth.models import *
>>> urlpatterns += patterns('django.auth.authenticate',
>>> (r'^specificurl$',")
>>> )
>>> If I get it working on specific URLS first, I can then start to work
>>> out how to incorporate the login section into parts of the app. So
>>> people could tick a page say as restricted, and then people would have
>>> to login to see the page.
>>> Any tips or links off to documentation would be really helpful.
>>> Thanks
>> --
>>
>> Philip Mountifield
>> Formac Electronics Ltd
>> tel +44 (0) 1225 837333
>> fax +44 (0) 1225 430995
>>
>> pmountifi...@formac.netwww.formac.netwww.telgas.net

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Philip Mountifield
Formac Electronics Ltd
tel +44 (0) 1225 837333
fax +44 (0) 1225 430995

pmountifield@formac.net
www.formac.net
www.telgas.net

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