user auth template tags not working-Django

Question

I used django-registration app. Everything goes fine. User gets registered with email verification but when user logs in and is redirected to mainpage the auth template tags such as {% if user.is_authenticated %} returns false.

I am having this in my login.html

<input type="hidden" name="next" value="/" />

After login I want to redirect the user to main page and in mainpage.html

{% if user.is_authenticated %}
     <p>Welcome, {{ user.username }}. Thanks for logging in.</p>
{% else %}
    <p>Welcome, new user. Please log in.</p>  
{% endif %}

but user.is_authenticated returns false here. What might be the problem here? Thanks

Answer 1

Try using {% if request.user.is_authenticated %} instead. It's entirely possible that user isn't being passed into the context dictionary within the view. If the object is not found within the template, it will just skip to the else portion of the block. Rendering templates are strange in django, as what would normally be an exception, is swallowed.