[Answered ]-Django Custom Client Login Page not Authenticating

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Django comes with authentication views, you should use these if possible instead of writing your own.

You already included the built-in login view in your URL patterns.

url(r'^login/$', auth_views.login, {'template_name': 'account/login.html'}, name='login'),

Therefore you don’t need your user_login view, so I would remove it. I have removed your custom authentication form because it is not required. The default authentication form already has the username and password fields. You have broken the clean_ methods because you don’t return a value.

Next, fix the form’s action in your template. Currently you are submitting the form data to the home view. You should send it to the login view.

<form class="form-horizontal" role="form" method="POST" action="{% url 'login' %}">

Finally, I would add LOGIN_URL = 'login' to your settings, then you can simplify the code that uses login_required to the following:

@login_required
def home(request):
    ...
👤Alasdair

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