Hola Lachlan,
Are you passing the `context_instance=RequestContext(request)` to all
templates? It should provide the user tag.
Bests,
Hevok
On Friday, September 21, 2012 12:20:04 AM UTC+2, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
>
> Hola,
>
> I've noticed for a while that my home/index page wasn't registering
> the {{ user }} tag when rendering the page: there was no "Welcome
> Username. Change password / Log out" in the top right corner, and the
> link to the admin interface that I'd put in the breadcrumbs for logged
> in users wouldn't appear.
>
> But that was the only page - every other page showed it fine - so I
> wasn't too concerned, and gave it a low priority to fix it.
>
> FWIW the whole site requires authentication (checked and confirmed in
> another browser) - so Django knew I was auth'd - it just chose to
> ignore some of the base.html
>
> Yesterday I added some thematic changes - a little js and css, plonked
> it in path/project/app/static/{js|css} as advised in docs and added
> them to the base template with {{ STATIC_URL }}.
>
> Suddenly the lack of auth recognition on some pages (turns out it was
> more than one) is noticeable, because the graceful degrading of the
> js/css is appalling enough to make it stick out. In particular, when I
> "inspected element" I saw that the {{ STATIC_URL }} wasn't being
> expanded - the resources were failing on bad paths.
>
> I've tracked everything down that could be the problem - I've
> confirmed half a dozen times that the pages in question are extending
> the correct base_site.html, which is extending the correct base.html,
> I even tried sending the request context in render_to_response with no
> luck.
>
> It was only this morning while doing some triage that I realised that
> the pages without proper auth (no details in top right corner) where
> also the ones with the wonky templating.
>
> Any clues on what I'm doing wrong or new ways to track down where the
> mistake is?
>
> Cheers
> L.
>
>
>
> --
> ...we look at the present day through a rear-view mirror. This is
> something Marshall McLuhan said back in the Sixties, when the world
> was in the grip of authentic-seeming future narratives. He said, “We
> look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards
> into the future.”
>
> http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14314
>
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