How to configure where to redirect after a log out in Django?

One easier way:

Add 'next' parameter to your log-out request url. For example:

<a href="{% url 'auth_logout' %}?next=/path_to_the_page"> Logout</a>

Then the logout view will do the trick for you.

For after-login-redirect, you can just simply set it in settings.py:

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/path_to_the_page'
LOGIN_URL = '/path_to_the_page'

Since Django 1.10, you can define a LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL (see the docs)

Modern Django (2017+?) has a setting called LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL.

Older Djangos / Original Answer

You don't need to overwrite or wrap anything.

According to the docs, you can just supply the next_page argument to the logout view. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/default/#django.contrib.auth.views.logout

(r'^logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout',
                          {'next_page': '/successfully_logged_out/'})

You can redirect user anywhere by using LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL in your setting.py file

LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = 'url name to redirect'