Redirect customers to Home page/previous page after login/create account in magento 2 instead of Dashboard?

Question

I am trying to redirect to user after login or creating account to either home page or previous page. My controller code is following it is not able to login or create an account.

<?php
/**
 *
 * Copyright © 2016 Magento. All rights reserved.
 * See COPYING.txt for license details.
 */
namespace PinkBlue\Redirect\Controller\Index;

use Magento\Customer\Model\Registration;
use Magento\Customer\Model\Session;
use Magento\Framework\View\Result\PageFactory;
use Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context;

class Redirect extends \Magento\Customer\Controller\AbstractAccount
{
    /** @var Registration */
    protected $registration;

    /**
     * @var Session
     */
    protected $session;

    /**
     * @var PageFactory
     */
    protected $resultPageFactory;

    /**
     * @param Context $context
     * @param Session $customerSession
     * @param PageFactory $resultPageFactory
     * @param Registration $registration
     */
    public function __construct(
        Context $context,
        Session $customerSession,
        PageFactory $resultPageFactory,
        Registration $registration
    ) {
        $this->session = $customerSession;
        $this->resultPageFactory = $resultPageFactory;
        $this->registration = $registration;
        parent::__construct($context);
    }

    /**
     * Customer register form page
     *
     * @return \Magento\Framework\Controller\Result\Redirect|\Magento\Framework\View\Result\Page
     */
    public function execute()
    {
        if ($this->session->isLoggedIn() || !$this->registration->isAllowed()) {
            /** @var \Magento\Framework\Controller\Result\Redirect $resultRedirect */
            $resultRedirect = $this->resultRedirectFactory->create();
            $resultRedirect->setPath('*/*');
            return $resultRedirect;
        }
        $objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
        //$currentUrl = $objectManager->get('Magento\Framework\UrlInterface')->getCurrentUrl();
        $catalogSession = $objectManager->create('Magento\Catalog\Model\Session');
        $previousUrl = $this->_redirect->getRefererUrl();
        $catalogSession->setCustomerRedirectUrl($previousUrl);


        /** @var \Magento\Framework\View\Result\Page $resultPage */
        $resultPage = $this->resultPageFactory->create();
        return $resultPage;
    }
}

Answer 1

You can disable the redirect.

1. On the Admin sidebar, tap Stores. Then under Settings, choose Configuration.
2. In the panel on the left, under Customers, choose Customer Configuration.
3. Expand the Login Options section.

4. Set Redirect Customer to Account Dashboard after Logging in to one of the following:

   • Yes - The account dashboard appears when customers log in to their accounts.
   • No - Customers can continue shopping after logging in to their accounts.

5. When complete, tap Save Config.

6. Click the Cache Management link in the yellow modal that shows up.

7. Select the Configuration and Page Cache checkboxes.

8. Click Submit to refresh the two selected cache types.

Magento Docs are your friend.

Cheers!

Answer 2

You can also apply below solution.

In your custom theme phtml file , for login link, add below code.

$currentUrl  = $this->getUrl('*/*/*', ['_current' => true, '_use_rewrite' => true]);
$login_url = $this->getUrl('customer/account/login', array('referer' => base64_encode($currentUrl)));

May this will help you.

Thank you

Answer 3

You can try to use in controller:

return $this->_redirect($previousUrl);

Also check the value in $previousUrl, it could be blank.

In order your login could work correctly with the full page cache - do not forget to flush the customer data in the browser local storage after registration or login.

We use the same logic in our Twitter & Facebook Login Free extension for Magento.

Hope it will help you.