redirect, can't leave login page - django

Question

having trouble with this tutorial. in my views.py I have this function for login, in views.py:
def login_view(request, *args, **kwargs):
form = AuthenticationForm(request, data=request.POST or None)
if form.is_valid():
user_ = form.get_user()
login(request, user_)
**return redirect("/")**
context = {
"form": form,
"btn_label": "Login",
"title": "Login"
}
return render(request, "accounts/auth.html", context)
however when i try to change the redirect , i only get errors, what should I put in the redirect? i've tried everything like
return redirect("/tweets/list.html")
and
return redirect("public/index.html")
both are locations of file names in the templates folder. I am getting the error, "Page not found (404)". The only address that did redirect was when I put https://www.google.com/
in accounts/views.py
from django.shortcuts import render, redirect
from django.contrib.auth import login, logout, authenticate
from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm, UserCreationForm
# Create your views here.
# Function based views to Class Based Views
def login_view(request, *args, **kwargs):
form = AuthenticationForm(request, data=request.POST or None)
if form.is_valid():
user_ = form.get_user()
login(request, user_)
return redirect('')
context = {
"form": form,
"btn_label": "Login",
"title": "Login"
}
return render(request, "accounts/auth.html", context)
def logout_view(request, *args, **kwargs):
if request.method == "POST":
logout(request)
return redirect("/login")
context = {
"form": None,
"description": "Are you sure you want to logout?",
"btn_label": "Click to Confirm",
"title": "Logout"
}
return render(request, "accounts/auth.html", context)
def register_view(request, *args, **kwargs):
form = UserCreationForm(request.POST or None)
if form.is_valid():
user = form.save(commit=True)
user.set_password(form.cleaned_data.get("password1"))
# send a confirmation email to verify their account
login(request, user)
return redirect("/")
context = {
"form": form,
"btn_label": "Register",
"title": "Register"
}
return render(request, "accounts/auth.html", context)
here is urls.py:
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, re_path, include # url()
from django.views.generic import TemplateView
from accounts.views import (
login_view,
logout_view,
register_view,
)
from tweets.views import (
home_view,
tweets_list_view,
tweets_detail_view,
)
urlpatterns = [
path('', home_view),
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('global/', tweets_list_view),
path('login/', login_view),
path('logout/', logout_view),
path('register/', register_view),
path('<int:tweet_id>', tweets_detail_view),
re_path(r'profiles?/', include('profiles.urls')),
path('api/tweets/', include('tweets.api.urls')),
re_path(r'api/profiles?/', include('profiles.api.urls')),
]
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL,
document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
thnx

Answer 1

Redirect should take a valid path to an url defined in urls.Py, not a file in templates/some/urls.html.
I would suggest not to used "hard coded urls" though, but instead using the view name and parameters such as return redirect('some-view-name', foo='bar')

Answer 2

i solved the error by looking at urls.py, looking into url patterns, picking
path('global/', tweets_list_view),
and dropping '/global/' into return redirect("/") so that line looks like:
return redirect("/global/")