I am using social login in my Django app. So, I have added additional backends in my settings.py file. AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [ 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', 'social_core.backends.open_id.OpenIdAuth', 'social_core.backends.google.GoogleOpenId', 'social_core.backends.google.GoogleOAuth2', 'social_core.backends.google.GoogleOAuth', 'social_core.backends.twitter.TwitterOAuth', 'social_core.backends.facebook.FacebookOAuth2', 'social_core.backends.github.GithubOAuth2', ] I have also used UserCreationForm for signup, class SignupForm(UserCreationForm): first_name = forms.CharField(max_length=30, required=True, help_text='Required.') last_name = forms.CharField(max_length=30, required=True, help_text='Required.') email = forms.EmailField(max_length=254, help_text='Required. Inform a valid email address.') class Meta: model = User fields = ('username', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'password1', 'password2' ) This is the views file, def signup(request): if request.method == 'POST': form = SignupForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): form.save() username = form.cleaned_data.get('username') raw_pass = form.cleaned_data.get('password') user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=raw_pass) login(request,user,backend='django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend') url = reverse('location:get_location') print("location_url ", url) return HttpResponseRedirect(url) else: form = SignupForm() return render(request, 'signup.html', {'form':form}) Now, I get this error when i click signup button on my form, 'AnonymousUser' object has no attribute '_meta' at the line, login(request,user,backend='django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend') Why so ? I can see in my admin panel that user has been saved. What is causing this error ? and how to solve it ? EDIT - Internal Server Error: /signup/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/luvpreet/Envs/weather/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 41, in inner response = get_response(request) File "/home/luvpreet/Envs/weather/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 187, in _get_response response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request) File "/home/luvpreet/Envs/weather/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 185, in _get_response response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "/home/luvpreet/Desktop/drf-vogo/weather/weather/pilot/views.py", line 45, in signup login(request,user,backend='django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend') File "/home/luvpreet/Envs/weather/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py", line 154, in login request.session[SESSION_KEY] = user._meta.pk.value_to_string(user) File "/home/luvpreet/Envs/weather/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 239, in inner return func(self._wrapped, *args) AttributeError: 'AnonymousUser' object has no attribute '_meta' Continue reading...