Changing redirect login path for guests?

Question

Suppose a menu's (or article's) access is set to registered users only.

Path to the page : http://localhost/menu

when this URL is directly access by any GUEST USER, he's redirected to :

http://localhost/...?view=login which asks him to login first.

How to change the path to redirect page..i have made a custom login page, i want it to be redirected to my custom made login page and not to http://localhost/...?view=login. Which file needs to be edited to acheive that?

Answer 1

I figured it out myself! :)

You need to edit this file : /templates/your_template/html/com_users/login/default.php or if your template folder doesn't consist of html folder, edit this one: /components/com_users/views/login/tmpl/default.php

and change

if ($this->user->get('guest')):
echo $this->loadTemplate('login');

to

if ($this->user->get('guest')):
header("Location: URL_WHERE_YOU_WANT_TO_REDIRECT");

Answer 2

If you would like to make your login page look different, you can do a template override and no need to redirect to a different page. Find your templates folder and select the template you are using. Create an html folder if you do not have one. The component you wanna override is com_users.

If you have a look at /components/com_users/views folder, you can see all the views that can be overriden in the template folder. The one we need now is in the login folder. /components/com_users/views/login/tmpl - there are default.php default_login.php and default_logout.php.

You have already created an html folder in your template, now you need to copy these files in the following location:

/templates/yourtemplate/html/com_users/login

That will result in having 3 files:

/templates/yourtemplate/html/com_users/login/default.php
/templates/yourtemplate/html/com_users/login/default_login.php
/templates/yourtemplate/html/com_users/login/default_logout.php

You do not need the tmpl folder.

You can edit the default_login.php to do the override.

Answer 3

You need to create a plugin, which will check the url and Usergroup. If you user is guest then you can redirect user to desired url.

Below link may help you.

• Creating Joomla Plugin
• onAfterRoute

Answer 4

The answer by @saibbyweb resulted in an infinite redirect loop in Joomla 3.9.

I then figured out that my problem was with the component I was trying to access, com_akeebasubs, which used:

$this->container->platform->redirect(\JUri::base() .'index.php?option=com_users&view=login&return=' . $myURI);

The redirect worked properly after I changed this line to:

$this->container->platform->redirect(\JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_users&view=login&return=' . $myURI));

You do need to have a User > Login Form menu item.

Answer 5

If you wanna change where the user is going to be redirected after login and logout, you van do this in the login module of joomla. There are 2 fileds for this.