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diff --git a/docs/authentication.txt b/docs/authentication.txt index c1a1f8494d..3edbc21f7a 100644 --- a/docs/authentication.txt +++ b/docs/authentication.txt @@ -355,8 +355,8 @@ Here's what ``django.contrib.auth.views.login`` does:: form. It's your responsibility to provide the login form in a template called -``registration/login.html``. This template gets passed three template context -variables: +``registration/login.html`` by default. This template gets passed three +template context variables: * ``form``: A ``FormWrapper`` object representing the login form. See the `forms documentation`_ for more on ``FormWrapper`` objects. @@ -365,6 +365,13 @@ variables: * ``site_name``: The name of the current ``Site``, according to the ``SITE_ID`` setting. See the `site framework docs`_. +If you'd prefer not to call the template ``registration/login.html``, you can +pass the ``template_name`` parameter via the extra arguments to the view in +your URLconf. For example, this URLconf line would use ``myapp/login.html`` +instead:: + + (r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login', {'template_name': 'myapp/login.html'}), + Here's a sample ``registration/login.html`` template you can use as a starting point. It assumes you have a ``base.html`` template that defines a ``content`` block:: |