Laravel 5.4 change login url

One way is to use a middleware:

• Create \app\Http\Middleware\RedirectIfNotAuthenticated.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;

class RedirectIfNotAuthenticated
{
    /**
     * Handle an incoming request.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  \Closure  $next
     * @param  string|null  $guard
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle($request, Closure $next, $guard = null)
    {
        if (! Auth::guard($guard)->check()) {
            return redirect('/somewhere');
        }

        return $next($request);
    }
}

• Use the middleware in your route

use App\Http\Middleware\RedirectIfNotAuthenticated;

Route::middleware(RedirectIfNotAuthenticated::class)->get(....);

they are registered when you have Auth::routes() in your web.php

you could delete that "Auth::routes()" line and put all the auth routes manually pointing wherever you want:

Route::get('`myNewLoginPageYay/', 'Auth\LoginController@showLoginForm')->name('login');
Route::post('login/', 'Auth\LoginController@login');
Route::post('logout', 'Auth\LoginController@logout')->name('logout');

// Registration Routes...
Route::get('register/', 'Auth\RegisterController@showRegistrationForm')->name('register');
Route::post('register/', 'Auth\RegisterController@register');

// Password Reset Routes...
Route::get('password/reset', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@showLinkRequestForm')->name('password.request');
Route::post('password/email', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@sendResetLinkEmail');
Route::get('password/reset/{token}', 'Auth\ResetPasswordController@showResetForm')->name('password.reset');
Route::post('password/reset', 'Auth\ResetPasswordController@reset');

After some investigation I found that when an AuthenticationException is thrown then the unauthenticated() function is triggered located in in app\Exceptions\Handler.php, which returns:

return redirect()->guest('/login');

so changing it to:

return redirect()->guest('/custom/login/url');

will do the job!

for named routes you can use:

return redirect()->guest(route('name', [], false));

Thanks everyone!

I received the error message: Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found. NotFoundHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 161:

Do i need to create a new view for this custom login url?

@JohnnyL:

Alert! Files in 'vendor' folder will be replaced on next "composer update"

Thanks @igaster, I'll edit my post. I thought it was weird that noone had found this simple fix :P

@igaster I have done the following as you described, but it leads to Error 404 :

return redirect()->guest('/custom/login/url');

I'm doing the same task. Rerouting Guests to '/login' . I edited the below in UserController.php:

    public function __construct(UserApiController $API)
     {
           $this->UserAPI = $API;
    
           $this->middleware('auth', ['except' => ['login']]);
            //$this->middleware('auth', ['except' => ['index','about','single_video','all_categories' ,'category_videos' , 'sub_category_videos' ,  'about' , 'contact','trending']]);
}

and edited the below in Handler.php:

        public function render($request, Exception $e)
            {
                return redirect()->guest('/login');
                //return response()->view('errors.404', [], 404);
                // return parent::render($request, $e);
            }
        }

It redirect well but when user is signed in and tryiing to visit a protected blade, I'm receiving the below error in laravel.log:

[2020-02-24 16:10:51] production.ERROR: ReflectionException: Class App\Http\Controllers\UserController      does not exist in /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:281

What have I missed?

actually noticed some closes where missing from the UserController.php file. fixed that. working fine now