blocking unwanted urls in django

Question

I have added account app to installed_apps in my django project. also I have added urls of account app as like below:

(r"^account/", include("account.urls"))

Its working fine. Now I had to override SignupView class of account app. This is also working fine. Now I have created a new class CreateUser(SignupView) and I want that only admin user will be able to create user. So I added a different url for CreateUser(SignupView) view. Now I want that account/signup url with view SignupView will not be accessible anymore.

How can I block this particular url by keeping other urls active of account app as this is a library.

Does this answer your question? [How to limit a view to superuser only?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15998140/how-to-limit-a-view-to-superuser-only) — Iain Shelvington, Dec 29 '19 at 10:31
No it does not @lain. Because I dont want to edit library code. — cjahangir, Dec 29 '19 at 10:34
@Stargazer, here is the urls.py. But I dont want to edit this. Because this is inside a site-packages. — cjahangir, Dec 29 '19 at 10:36
So wi will need to extend the views and not use the bultin views at all. Override the account urls with your new views. — Stargazer, Dec 29 '19 at 10:39

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 29 '19 at 10:41

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You can add a specific entry for the one URL that you wish to block before you include the packages urls.py. This will take precedence as Django loops over URLs in order looking for the first match

from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView

urlpatterns = [
    path('account/signup', RedirectView.as_view(url='/')),
    path('account', include('account.urls')),
]

answered Dec 29 '19 at 10:41

Iain Shelvington

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I hope this will serve my purpose. Thanks @Iain – cjahangir Dec 29 '19 at 11:12

blocking unwanted urls in django

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