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The complete django-allauth guide

Gajesh on July 17, 2019

User registration and authentication is one of the most essential components of a web application. This tutorial deals with setup, configuration, a...

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George Corple • Sep 7 '19

Hi! Thanks for the obvious hard work you put into this. Tried working through it, and it wasn't working. Discovered that you need to add "SITE_ID =1" into your settings file and it all starts working.

Haven't gotten passed the initial setup, but looking forward to the rest!

Devang Hingu • Apr 1 '20

why "SITE_ID =1" required?

Gajesh • Oct 3 '19

I will fix it. Thanks.

Andrey Frol • Jan 11 '21

Hi! How would I go about changing the way "Remember Me" checkbox is displayed?
I have tried this:

class UserLoginForm(LoginForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(UserLoginForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.helper = FormHelper(self)
        # self.helper.form_show_labels = False # Doesn't work though it should

        self.fields["login"].label = ""
        self.fields["password"].label = ""

        self.fields["remember"].widget.attrs.update({
            "input": {
                "type": "checkbox",
                "name": "checkbox-fill-1",
                "id": "checkbox-fill-a1",
                "checked": "",
            },
        })

But it does not seem to work. I want to have a custom "Remember me" checkbox that nothing I do changes it

Alfaro • Jun 23 '20

Great blog. It helped a lot setting user authentication in place.

One recommendation, I would encourage users to create a "user authentication" app within the DJANGO project in order to have a cleaner main folder. Just a thought.

VaneClavijo • Oct 12 '22

when I clik on Google login it redirects me to

and i want it to redirect me directly to provider login page

Mohit Aggarwal • Jul 12 '20

How can i add custom phone number field in django allauth

Shivam Rohilla • Oct 14 '21

I don't know why facebook integration is not working on my live website, it's perfectly run on localhost but not on live website, can you please explain how to assign a user profile while we signup through facebook, I have 2 user types and I want to assign them one user profile can you please tell me how to do this :)

Hernán Chilabert • Jul 13 '20

Hey Gajesh, nice post!
Quick question: how can I exclude fields in my CustomSignUp view? Because, If I create my CustomSignUp adding some extra field (like 'role' or whatever), the username, email and password always are there.
Thanks!

aakas • Dec 7 '20

I recently got into a issue where user cannot login whose facebook id is made using mobile number and no email address is connected to it.

Is it due to that i kept ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True ?

looking forward for solution.

Alex Winkler • Feb 16 '20

Really nice in-depth tutorial. I was wondering if you've ever encountered a KeyError at /accounts/login/ 'BACKEND' issue and if so how did you resolve it? I've been trying to find a solution for over a week and just can't seem to resolve it.

Even posted a SOF question..

stackoverflow.com/questions/602517...

programmingprobie • May 9 '22

Has anyone had any success using it with DRF ?

JhonieWebAppDev • Dec 8 '20

this is great, but do you have a logical explanation why is the TEMPLATES setting is like this?

TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [
os.path.normpath(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')),
],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request', => # "same as below"
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
'django.template.context_processors.request', => # "same as above"
],
},
},

]

is this necessary?
why not like this?
for it's more simple and understandable

============================================================

TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [
os.path.normpath(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')),
],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.template.context_processors.request', = > not "DRY"
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]

Mike Farad • Apr 18 '20

Is it possible to make the password field on the sign up page not required

Akash Nagtilak • Oct 2 '21

Thanks

Mohammad Kamrul Hasan • Oct 8 '20

Thanks for this deep tutorial

Ankit Kumar • Dec 13 '21

How i can check if user's email is verified or not in django template.

ColeDrain • Sep 6 '20

I know it's been a while, but 'django.template.context_processors.request' was repeated twice in the context_processors.

devkranthi • Jan 4 '20

Can we use this for mobile client seeking Social Login?
What data should be expected from mobile client?

Butonix • Feb 24 '21

how to do authorization in a modal window? So that the user does not have the opportunity to click on the link /account/login/ only through the modal window

Crypto Shorts • Apr 21 '20

I downloaded latest repository and I had one error due to 'edx'.
I removed 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.edx', from settings.py and everything is working fine.

Amusat Haki Adeyemi • Dec 24 '22

Thanks for this, I've been using Allauth for quite a long time and I still find this useful.

Crypto Shorts • Apr 21 '20

one more correction : in the top section "allauthallauth.account" is mentioned which is actully "allauth.account".

Devang Hingu • Apr 1 '20

can i use same login pages for Staff ? And redirect staff user to different URL?

Fahad Ali • May 3 '20

Hello sir .I want to login with username or email like instagram then can i use allauth