How can I not use Django's admin login view?

Question

I created my own view for login. However if a user goes directly to /admin it brings them to the admin login page and doesn't use my custom view. How can I make it redirect to the login view used for everything not /admin?

Answer 1

From http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2127/—wrap the admin login page with login_required. For example, in urls.py:

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
admin.site.login = login_required(admin.site.login)

You probably already have the middle two lines and maybe even the first line; adding that fourth line will cause anything that would have hit the admin.site.login function to redirect to your LOGIN_URL with the appropriate next parameter.