Reset password/Forgot password/Lost password in django

To recover your lost password in Django we have the following steps i am following the steps from Here- First we should also know that how does this works-

1. On clicking Forgot/Lost Password link on your template it'll redirect to a page where you have to enter your registered user email id.
2. If email id is valid it'll send an email with a update password link.
3. On clicking that link you have to submit your new password twice.
4. On successful password update  it'll redirect with Log-in link.

STEP 1:- Before begin anything consider we have setup our project like there is a project and an app, and copy the required template from Django's core template to your own project template system, copy this whole registration folder into our template. we can copy the folder from-
"Our_project/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/templates/registration".


It'll contain following files-

/django/contrib/admin/templates/registration/password_reset_form.html
/django/contrib/admin/templates/registration/password_reset_done.html
/django/contrib/admin/templates/registration/password_reset_confirm.html
/django/contrib/admin/templates/registration/password_reset_complete.html
/django/contrib/admin/templates/registration/password_reset_email.html

 

STEP 2 :- setting.py:- Configure the smtp/mail server in setting.py

if DEBUG:
    EMAIL_HOST = 'localhost'
    EMAIL_PORT = 1025
    EMAIL_HOST_USER = ''
    EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = ''
    EMAIL_USE_TLS = False
    DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'testing@example.com'

This is the default server of the local host, To activate this we have to run a command i.e.
"python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025"

Beside this we can add server detail as same as below:-

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'username@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'gmailPassword'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'username@gmail.com'
DEFAULT_TO_EMAIL = 'username@gmail.com'
<!-- OR -->
EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.xyz.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'username@xyz.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
EMAIL_PORT = 25
EMAIL_USE_TLS = False

STEP 3:- Give URL to your html for lost password link as below-

<a class="to_forget" href="{% url 'password_reset' %}">Lost your password?</a>
STEP 4:- Add Few URLs in your main project.url.py as below
   
url(r'^user/password/reset/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset', {'post_reset_redirect' : '/user/password/reset/done/'}, name="password_reset"),
url(r'^user/password/reset/done/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_done'),
url(r'^user/password/reset/(?P<uidb64>[0-9A-Za-z]+)-(?P<token>.+)/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm', {'post_reset_redirect' : '/user/password/done/'}),
url(r'^user/password/done/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_complete'),

STEP 5:- Now in template/registration/Password_reset_email.html
replace {{ protocol }}://{{ domain }}{% url 'password_reset_confirm' uidb64=uid token=token %}
with    {{ domain }}{% url 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm' uidb64=uid token=token %}

Now we're able to update our lost password,
in the last we can change template/registration/password_reset_complete.html with our login link.