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

In Laravel 5.6, go to app/Exceptions folder and open the Handler.php, add a new method that overrides the unauthenticated method like so:

protected function unauthenticated($request, AuthenticationException $exception)
{
    if($request->ajax())
    {
        return response([
            "message" => "Unauthenticated.",
            "data" => [],
        ],401);
    }

    return redirect()->to('/');
}

This method is triggered when you access a protected route using the built-in "auth" middleware. Now you will have full control where to redirect or the response sent.