Django always failed when login as user, while superuser (admin) always success - django

Question

So, I've tried a couple of times to register and back to login. Always failed to log in except for superuser or admin. Already checked in Django admin that the user that I have registered already there.
There is no error message in the terminal when login or register a user. Except for the error message that I've created in views.py if log in unsuccessful.
So, let's take a look into my code. First views.py
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login, logout
def login_view(request):
if request.method == "POST":
# Attempt to sign user in
username = request.POST["username"]
password = request.POST["password"]
user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password)
# Check if authenticate successful
if user is not None:
login(request, user)
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse("index"))
else:
context = {
"message": "Invalid username and/or password"
}
return render(request, "page/login.html", context)
else:
return render(request, "page/login.html")
def register(request):
if request.method == "POST":
username = request.POST["username"]
email = request.POST["email"]
# Ensure password matches with password confirmation
password = request.POST["password"]
confirmation = request.POST["confirmation"]
if password != confirmation:
context = {
"message": "Both password must match"
}
return render(request, "page/register.html", context)
# Attempt to create new user
try:
user = User.objects.create_user(username)
user.save()
except IntegrityError:
context = {
"message": "Username already exist"
}
return render(request, "page/register.html", context)
login(request, user)
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse("index"))
else:
return render(request, "page/register.html")
And below is the template both for log in and register.
<!-- Logintemplate -->
<div class="login-register">
<div class="head">
Log in to Explore
</div>
<form action="{% url 'login' %}" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
<div class="form-floating mb-3">
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="username" name="username" placeholder="Username"">
<label for="username">Username</label>
</div>
<div class="form-floating mb-3">
<input type="password" class="form-control" id="password" name="password" placeholder="Password">
<label for="password">Password</label>
</div>
<div class="d-grid gap-2">
<input class="btn btn-outline-success" type="submit" value="Login">
</div>
<div id="log-reg">
Sign Up
</div>
</form>
{% if message %}
<div class="alert alert-danger mt-4" role="alert">
{{ message }}
</div>
{% endif %}
</div>
<!-- Register template -->
<div class="login-register">
<div class="head">
Create your account
</div>
<form action="{% url 'register' %}" method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
<div class="form-floating mb-3">
<input type="text" class="form-control" autofocus type="text" name="username" id="username" placeholder="Username">
<label for="username">Username</label>
</div>
<div class="form-floating mb-3">
<input type="email" class="form-control" name="email" id="email" placeholder="name#example.com">
<label for="email">Email address</label>
</div>
<div class="form-floating mb-3">
<input type="password" class="form-control" id="password" name="password" placeholder="Password">
<label for="password">Password</label>
</div>
<div class="form-floating mb-3">
<input type="password" class="form-control" id="confirmation" name="confirmation" placeholder="Confirm Password">
<label for="confirmation">Password Confirmation</label>
</div>
<div class="d-grid gap-2">
<input class="btn btn-outline-success" type="submit" value="Register">
</div>
<div id="log-reg">
Already have an account? Log In here.
</div>
</form>
{% if message %}
<div class="alert alert-danger mt-4" role="alert">
{{ message }}
</div>
{% endif %}
</div>
Is there something I missed or action that I need to perform?

Answer 1

You create the user as follows:
user = User.objects.create_user(username)
This creates a user without a password which means your user would not be able to login. pass the username and password both to the create_user method:
user = User.objects.create_user(username=username, password=password)
Note: Use a form class to make forms in Django to perform validation and cleaning. For making a user use the
UserCreationForm