django-userena: how to activate account for local development?

Question

I just installed django-userena for my accounts management.

Because I'm still at the stage of basic development and I don't have a public domain name. I'm using gmail for my EMAIL_HOST for testing. The default setting from django-userena is using example.com for demo. How can I switch it to my local domain, i.e. 127.0.0.1:8000, so I can make some dummy "users" activated and test it for my other apps?

Thank you!!!

EDITED: Because I don't have a domain name, when the user click the activation email in his email(e.g. Gmail), it's directed to http://example.com/accounts/activate/hash_as_placeholder/, so the result is that the user can't activate his account. How can I let them activate their accounts on a local domain?

Answer 1

Try this. Add this lines to settings.py

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/accounts/%(username)s/'  
LOGIN_URL = '/accounts/signin/'  
LOGOUT_URL = '/accounts/signout/'  

and about email configuration, i have issues with gmail if i send a lot of mails. So for testing purposes i have this in my settings:

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend' #printed in console

All emails will be printed in console.

EDITED: Create new file initial_data.json in your project root with

[{
"pk": 1,
"model": "sites.site",
"fields": {
   "name": "127.0.0.1:8000",
   "domain":"127.0.0.1:8000"
   }
}]

and run syncdb of course. This will change your example.com to 127.0.0.1:8000