how do i change the default text displayed on the signup page

[quaint citrus]

i have a signup page and ther is a lot of text i dont want like ove the username form it says
Required. 150 characters or fewer. Letters, digits and @/./+/-/_ only.
and i would like that to show up only when you input something that isnt allowed
especcialy the text over the password i really hate that

[dreamy kindle]

Not enough information. But going off of just this, I would check your admin.py or forms.py and look for pages related to your signup page if this is the default django one.

[quaint citrus]

i cannot post a picture here to show you waht im talking about

[dreamy kindle]

You can also change the model of your default User. That help_text stuff comes from that model.

Check your settings.py for AUTH_USER_MODEL

What is that set to?

[quaint citrus]

there is no auth user model in settings

[dreamy kindle]

Cool. Add a model to your project for User. You probably want it to inherit from AbstractUser

from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser

, then set AUTH_USER_MODEL= "[your app name].[your User Model name]"

How much exeprience do you have in django?

[quaint citrus]

very little

do i import that in settings.py?

[dreamy kindle]

Alright. Then I can help break it down. Do you have a models.py yet?

[dreamy kindle]

No, you'd import the AbstractUser in models.py

[quaint citrus]

yes but i dont have anything written in there

[dreamy kindle]

Perfect. Add that import there first and then:

Something like:

class User(AbstractUser):
  username = models.CharField(
        _('username'),
        max_length=150,
        unique=True,
        help_text=_('Required. 150 characters or fewer. Letters, digits and @/./+/-/_ only.'),
        validators=[username_validator],
        error_messages={
            'unique': _("A user with that username already exists."),
        },
    )

Except change that help_text or anything else that you don't like. I just copied that from AbstractUser which is what django uses by default. By inheriting from that class, it will have all of the same fields as that class does, but you can override the ones you don't like.

To find the app name, look in your settings.py for the list of INSTALLED_APPS. You should find one that has the same name as the directory to your models.py file. If you do, perfect, what is it and I'll give you the exact string to put in your settings.py

Whatever that directory is, is probably the APP_NAME that you want to use for the next step, so I'll just tell you it.

1. in your settings.py, add this line somewhere:

AUTH_USER_MODEL= "[your app name with your new models.py that you edited].User"

2. Run ./manage.py makemigrations

3. Run ./manage.py migrate

If your app is set up properly and you followed those steps, the changes that you made to your User model will now show up on your signup page. You can change the help_text to say anything that you want. You can disable the validators or change them by adding the username_validator to your User Model the same way that it's in AbstractUser.

Any time that you change a field of one of your models though, always run makemigrations and migrate to see them applied

[quaint citrus]

this is what i have in my installed apps

INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'base',
]

[dreamy kindle]

AUTH_USER_MODEL= "base.User"

[quaint citrus]

i did that

and when i do makemigrations

i get an error saying

django.db.migrations.exceptions.InconsistentMigrationHistory: Migration admin.0001_initial is applied before its dependency base.0001_initial on database 'default'.

[dreamy kindle]

What is the name of the folder that your models.py is in?

It's saying that you have 2 migration folders. One that is called admin and one that is called base.

admin/migrations/0001_initial is listing base/migrations/0001_initial as a dependency but has already been applied somehow.

I'm gonna go to bed now, but in your terminal you can run something like

./manage.py migrate admin 0000;
./manage.py migrate base 0000;
./manage.py migrate;

And that should do something

Oh wait, sorry, i'm tired. Don't run line 3 of that...

It should be:

./manage.py migrate admin 0000;
./manage.py migrate base 0000;
./manage.py makemigrations;
./manage.py migrate;

and if that doesn't work, then do:

./manage.py migrate admin 0000;
./manage.py migrate base 0000;

Then delete your migration scripts found in admin/migrations and base/migrations

Then run

./manage.py makemigrations;
./manage.py migrate;

Sorry, without knowing the answers to questions I've been asking and what your folder/file structure looks like, that's the best that I can do for now. Hope that helps! Goodnight!

[quaint citrus]

sorry for late reply