Django Frontpage

Show a page before your users authenticate into the admin site.

Valid users will go straight to the admin site, others will land in the frontpage where you can show an app description, warning, etc. You only need to provide your own template.

After clicking the login button in the frontpage, the user will be redirected to the original url. If there was no original url, the user will be redirected to the FRONTPAGE_ADMIN_PREFIX.

Getting started

Works with Django version 2.0 to 3.1.

Tested with Django-supported Python versions.

Install:

pip install django-frontpage

Then modify your Django settings:

Add the frontpage application to INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
  ...
  'frontpage',
  ...
)

Add the middleware to MIDDLEWARE after AuthenticationMiddleware or any other authentication middleware like OAuth2:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    ...
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'oauth2_provider.backends.OAuth2Backend',
    'frontpage.middleware.FrontpageMiddleware',
    ...
]

Default admin prefix is '/admin/' change it if necessary:

FRONTPAGE_ADMIN_PREFIX = '/admin/'

Add the frontpage view to your urls:

from frontpage.views import FrontpageView

urlpatterns = [
    path('', FrontpageView.as_view(), name='frontpage'),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    ...
]

Demo

Here's how the default template looks like:

Custom frontpage template

Place a different frontpage template in frontpage/index.html.

Or use the template_name attribute in urls.py:

from frontpage.views import FrontpageView

urlpatterns = [
    path('', FrontpageView.as_view(template_name='my_frontpage.html'), name='frontpage'),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    ...
]

See frontpage/templates/frontpage/index.html for the default frontpage template.

Settings

Frontpage needs to know about the logout url because that one should not be redirected.

Relogin is necessary if you are logged in as an user that does not have access to the admin. You may need to implement a custom view to logout the user then redirect to some login URL.

Flow

When the frontpage is accessed then:

• if the user is_authenticated and is_staff then:
  • the user will be redirected to the admin site
• if the user is_authenticated but NOT is_staff then:
  • frontpage is rendered with a specific message
• if the user is anonymous then:
  • frontpage is rendered with a specific message

When any page of the admin site is accessed then:

• if the user is_authenticated and is_staff then:
  • everything is ok, frontpage will do nothing here
• if the user is_authenticated but NOT is_staff then:
  • the user will be redirected to the frontpage page
• if the user is anonymous then:
  • the user will be redirected to the frontpage page

Tests

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
pip install Django
pytest

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