How to change default redirect URL of Laravel 5 Auth filter?

Question

By default if I am not logged and I try visit this in browser:

http://localhost:8000/home

It redirect me to http://localhost:8000/aut

Answer 1

I wanted to do the same thing in Laravel 5.5. Handling authentication has moved to Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authenticate which throws an Illuminate\Auth\AuthenticationException.

That exception is handled in Illuminate\Foundation\Exceptions\Hander.php, but you don't want to change the original vendor files, so you can overwrite it with your own project files by adding it to App\Exceptions\Handler.php.

To do this, add the following to the top of the Handler class in App\Exceptions\Handler.php:

use Illuminate\Auth\AuthenticationException;

And then add the following method, editing as necessary:

/**
 * Convert an authentication exception into an unauthenticated response.
 *
 * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
 * @param  \Illuminate\Auth\AuthenticationException  $exception
 * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
 */
protected function unauthenticated($request, AuthenticationException $exception)
{
    if ($request->expectsJson()) {
        return response()->json(['error' => 'Unauthenticated.'], 401);
    }

    return redirect()->guest('login'); //<----- Change this
}

Just change return redirect()->guest('login'); to return redirect()->guest(route('auth.login')); or anything else.

I wanted to write this down because it took me more than 5 minutes to figure it out. Please drop me a line if you happened to find this in the docs because I couldn't.