Django-filer, URL that is 'seperate' from admin

Question

I am trying to set up django-filer on my website. I cannot figure out how to get the URLS to be separate from the admin site on the website.

localhost:8000/admin/filer/folder/

Is where it wants to go now, which of course requires someone to have complete admin access in the /admin portion. I want them to have just filer access and be able to see the site. I have my base urls.py as:

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('accounts/', include('accounts.urls')), # new
    path('accounts/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')), 
    path('filer/', include('filer.server.urls')),
]

Going to localhost:8000/filer does nothing though? I was hoping I was able to create a local little dropbox functionality with my django website where registered users can use it, though they don't have to be admin in the /admin

Is this even possible? I didn't see it in the documentation for filer at all?

Answer 1

When I looked into the source code of django-filer I felt, it will be very hard to re-implement these kinds of operations outside the Django Admin.

So, I would like to implement a different solution... Allow non-staff users to access the Django admin, but only to this particular app

For that, we need to override the default admin site.

# myproject/admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm


class MyAdminSite(admin.AdminSite):
    login_form = AuthenticationForm

    def has_permission(self, request):
        return request.user.is_active

# myproject/apps.py
from django.contrib.admin.apps import AdminConfig

class MyAdminConfig(AdminConfig):
    default_site = 'myproject.admin.MyAdminSite'

# myproject/settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'myproject.apps.MyAdminConfig',  # replaces 'django.contrib.admin'
    ...
]

Notes:

• Why override login_form and has_permission(...)?
  • By default Django checks is_staff flag. In our cases, we need to allow all authenticated users

As of now, for a non-staff user can log in to the Django Admin and he will able to see an empty Django dashboard as below

Now we need to handle the permissions. For that, I am using Group Permissions schemes. So,

• Create a Group
• Add all filer app permissions to the group
• Add normal user to the Filer group

and now finally, for a normal user, the Django Admin will look like,