Password reset in Django 1.0

26 September 2008 Comments

Resetting password changed in 1.0, and the documentation for this is missing. The basic way of using new views is to add this set to urlconf:

import django.contrib.auth.views
....
(r'^password_reset/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset'),
(r'^password_reset/done/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_done'),
(r'^reset/(?P<uidb36>[0-9A-Za-z]+)-(?P<token>.+)/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm'),
(r'^reset/done/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_complete'),

Default templates are in django/contrib/admin/templates/registration and can be used out of the box, but they have Admin Panel like look. You can set paths to your custom templates (copy & edit the original ones):

(r'^password_reset/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', {'template_name':'userpanel/password_reset_form.html', 'email_template_name':'userpanel/password_reset_email.html'}),
(r'^password_reset/done/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_done', {'template_name':'userpanel/password_reset_done.html'}),
(r'^reset/(?P<uidb36>[0-9A-Za-z]+)-(?P<token>.+)/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm', {'template_name':'userpanel/password_reset_confirm.html'}),
(r'^reset/done/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_complete', {'template_name':'userpanel/password_reset_complete.html'}),

If you want to use those views wrapped in your own views, then you will get few NoReverseMatch: Reverse for 'yourapp.django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments... exceptions. You have to pass to the views also a post_reset_redirect argument with URLs to other password reset views:

password_reset - URL for password_reset_done view
password_reset_confirm - URL for password_reset_complete view
password_reset_email.html - You have add in some way URL to password_reset_confirm in URL tag:
```
{% url django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm uidb36=uid, token=token %}
```

Example:

def password_reset(request):
	"""
	django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset view (forgotten password)
	"""
	if not request.user.is_authenticated():
		return django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset(request,
                          template_name='userpanel/password_reset_form.html',
                          email_template_name= 'userpanel/password_reset_email.html',
                          post_reset_redirect='/user/password_reset/done/')
	else:
		return HttpResponseRedirect("/user/")

For the links in the email domain name from Sites app is used. If you change the domain in Admin Panel/Sites, then you will have to restart the server to see the changes in emails.

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Django web framework tutorials, 26 September 2008