[Django]-Django logout redirects me to administration page

If you are seeing the log out page of the Django administration site instead of your own log out page (your_application/templates/registration/logged_out.html), check the INSTALLED_APPS setting of your project and make sure that django.contrib.admin comes after your_application. Both templates are located in the same relative path and the Django template loader will use the first one it finds.

Tested on Django 1.6:

What I do is adding this into my urls.py:

(r'^management/logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout'),

And then used it:

<a href="{% url "django.contrib.auth.views.logout" %}?next=/">Log out</a>

For the next argument, there you point to the right URL.

Tested on Django 2.1

Append to urlpatterns in urls.py:

from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views

urlpatterns = [
    path('logout/', auth_views.LogoutView.as_view(), name='logout'),
]

And then use it in the template:

<a href="{% url "logout" %}?next=/">logout</a>

More info can be found here.

The easiest solution is:

1. Make sure your app comes before django.contrib.admin under installed apps in settings.py.

2. Make sure your template is called logged_out.html.

According to docs, you can supply the next_page parameter to the logout view.

See LogoutView documentation.

(r'^logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout',
    {'next_page': '/logged_out/'})

You can put LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL in your settings.py file with a url name to redirect to, e.g. LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = 'index'

This is all fairly well explained in the manual, is there anything specific you don’t understand?

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/default/#how-to-log-a-user-out

from django.contrib.auth import logout

def logout_view(request):
    logout(request)
    # Redirect to a success page.

Alternatively if you don’t want to create your own view

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/default/#django.contrib.auth.views.logout

{% url 'logout' next='/some/url/' %}

i was experiencing the same isssue following Django by example… found this url worked for me

url(r'^logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout', { 'template_name': 'account/logout.html',}, name='logout' ),

Go to settings.py and add this code. “/” will redirect you to home

# Where to redirect during authentication
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = "/" #To go to home after login instead of getting redirected to accounts/profile on login which is default
LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = "/" #To logout back to the home page instead of the default admin logout page

I’m surprised no one has mentioned this, you can put this in your settings.py to redirect when logging in and logging out:

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/go-here-after-login/'
LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = '/go-here-after-logout/'

Summary of the most common solutions:

Make sure that your_app comes before django.contrib.admin in your INSTALLED_APPS list in your settings.py file.

Also make sure that your log out page is called ‘logged_out.html’ as pointed out in the answers above. Mine was called logout.html and didn’t work.

You can give the template to be rendered also in the href tag

{% if user.is_authenticated %}

  logged in as {{ user }}
  (<a href="{% url "logout" %}?next=myapp/templates/logoutmessage.html">logout</a>)

{% else %}
  ...
{% endif %}

if you use the default values in settings.py. Works for Django 3.1.

Make sure you added the following to your settings.py file:

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'home'
LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = 'home'

It tells Django to redirect you to whatever page you want to go to after logging in or out.

Just replace loaders here, and auth templates will be found in “your_progect_apps/templates/registration”:

TEMPLATES = [
{
    'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
    'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
    'OPTIONS': {
        'context_processors': [
            'django.template.context_processors.debug',
            'django.template.context_processors.request',
            'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
            'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
        ],
        'loaders': [
            'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
            'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
        ],
    },
},

]

Django v2.1