Snippets by chbrown

Enforce site wide login

This is based on a snippet contributed by zbyte64 ( RequireLoginMiddleware) but turned on its head. RequireLoginMiddleware enforces authentication for a subset of urls defined in settings.py. This middleware requires authentication for all urls except those defined in settings.py. The aim is to globally enforce site wide authentication without having to decorate individual views. To use, add the class to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES and then define the urls you don't need authentication for. These go in a tuple called PUBLIC_URLS in settings.py. For example:- PUBLIC_URLS = ( r'project/application/login/', r'project/application/signup/', ) By default, authentication is not required for any urls served statically by Django. If you want to subject these to the same validation, add an entry to settings.py called SERVE_STATIC_TO_PUBLIC with a value of True.