How to redirect login urls depending on if the user is admin or not in Django?

Question

I'm still new to Django. I have an admin user and a regular user who is not an admin. When admin login he should be redirected to '/admin_section' & when a regular user login he should be redirected to the '/' front page. Beyond that, it should be possible for an admin to be able to navigate to the '/' front page and see the page as a regular user can see.

I've been trying to search for an answer for this and the only thing I find is that I can use request.user.is_superuser in a view and ask whether the user is a superuser/admin or not. But the problem then becomes that admin will not have the ability to navigate to the front page ever. I have also set the login_redirect_url to "LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/'" which means everytime a user login they will be redirected to the frontpage - but it should not be like that.

Here is my code so far (from the views.py file):

def home(request):
   # if the user is not logged-in, show the loginpage
   if not request.user.is_authenticated:
       return HttpResponseRedirect('login')

# if the user is logged-in, show the frontpage
return render(request, 'mainapp/index.html')

# return the view for the admin section
def admin(request):

    # if the user is logged-in & is an admin - show the admin section
    if request.user.is_authenticated and request.user.is_superuser:
        return render(request, 'mainapp/admin.html')

return redirect('home') # redirects to the home view

forms.py:

from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm
from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth import logout
from django.contrib.auth.mixins import LoginRequiredMixin, AccessMixin

# a class which act as a view - it displays the login-form
class LoginForm(AuthenticationForm, AccessMixin):
    username=forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'form-control'}))
    password=forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput(attrs={'class':'form-control'}))

urls.py:

path('login/', views_auth.LoginView.as_view(form_class=LoginForm, redirect_authenticated_user=True), name='login'), # login-page

Nafees Anwar Nafees Anwar · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-15T19:43:41

Create your own login view inherited from built in login view and override get_success_url method according to your logic.

from django.contrib.auth import views as views_auth

class LoginView(views_auth.LoginView):
    form_class=LoginForm
    redirect_authenticated_user=True

    def get_success_url(self):
        # write your logic here
        if self.request.user.is_superuser:
            return '/admin_section'
        return '/'

urls.py

urlpatterns = [
    path('login/', LoginView.as_view(),name='login'),
]

Provide newly created view as login url in settings file.

settings.py
```
LOGIN_URL = 'login'
```

How to redirect login urls depending on if the user is admin or not in Django?

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urls.py

settings.py