A Basic Working AllAuth Site

This is a working Django project with a fully working set of AllAuth pages.

It features single homepage with a menu bar with the links that show on the index.html.

Requirements

• Python 3.13
• Django 5.2
• Django AllAuth 65.7
• Django Bootstrap 5

Next Steps

Once you've cloned the repo into your own project folder

1. create a virtual env as .venv
2. activate it
3. install the required packages
4. make and migrate the database
5. create a superuser
6. rename ".env update and rename to .env" to .env
7. generate a secret key
8. edit the .env file and put the secret key in and the email server details if required
9. start the site. Run in vscode rather than from the shell with python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000. It works because of this, https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments, "The extension also loads an environment variable definitions file identified by the python.envFile setting. The default value of this setting is ${workspaceFolder}/.env."
10. test the site
11. make it yours

Commands

My preferred Powershell commands for the above, run from the base project folder.

    python -m venv .venv
    .venv\Scripts\activate
    python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
    pip install -r requirements.txt
    cp '.env update and rename to .env' .env
    python -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe())"

Then edit the .env file and add the secret key output above, then run from vsCode.

    python manage.py makemigrations
    python manage.py migrate
    python manage.py createsuperuser

Then over to you.

Change Log

April 2025

• Updated to use Python 3.13, Django 5.2, Django AllAuth 65.7 & Bootstrap 5
• Removed AbstractUser model in favour of using a linked profile model. See Carlton Gibson's article for details.
• Simplify base.html