Django - after login, redirect user to his custom page --> mysite.com/username

A simpler approach relies on redirection from the page LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL. The key thing to realize is that the user information is automatically included in the request.

Suppose:

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/profiles/home'

and you have configured a urlpattern:

(r'^profiles/home', home),

Then, all you need to write for the view home() is:

from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.urls import reverse
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

@login_required
def home(request):
    return HttpResponseRedirect(
               reverse(NAME_OF_PROFILE_VIEW, 
                       args=[request.user.username]))

where NAME_OF_PROFILE_VIEW is the name of the callback that you are using. With django-profiles, NAME_OF_PROFILE_VIEW can be 'profiles_profile_detail'.

You can authenticate and log the user in as stated here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/default/#how-to-log-a-user-in

This will give you access to the User object from which you can get the username and then do a HttpResponseRedirect to the custom URL.

Yes! In your settings.py define the following

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/your-path'

And have '/your-path' be a simple View that looks up self.request.user and does whatever logic it needs to return a HttpResponseRedirect object.

A better way might be to define a simple URL like '/simple' that does the lookup logic there. The URL looks more beautiful, saves you some work, etc.