Magento 2: Change hompage on login

Question

I am looking a way how can I change homepage route on specific customer group user login. So basically problem that specific customer groups when logged in must see a different home page. How can this be done using events and observers. Also restrict that view only to that customer group. Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

Create a plugin for this.

VendorName/ModuleName/etc/frontend/di.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <type name="Magento\Cms\Controller\Index\Index">
        <plugin name="stackexchange_home" type="VendorName\ModuleName\Plugin\Cms\Controller\Index\Index" sortOrder="1"/>
    </type>
</config>

VendorName/ModuleName/Plugin/Cms/Controller/Index/Index.php

namespace VendorName\ModuleName\Plugin\Cms\Controller\Index;

use Magento\Customer\Model\Session;
use Magento\Cms\Helper\Page;

class Index
{
    /**
     * @var Session
     */
    protected $session;

    /**
     * @var Page
     */
    protected $pageHelper;

    /**
     * @param Page $pageHelper
     * @param Session $customerSession
     */
    public function __construct(
        Page $pageHelper,
        Session $customerSession
    ) {
        $this->pageHelper = $pageHelper;
        $this->session = $customerSession;
    }

    /**
     * Renders CMS Home page
     *
     * @param string|null $coreRoute
     * @return \Magento\Framework\Controller\Result\Forward
     * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD.UnusedFormalParameter)
     */
    public function aroundExecute(
        \Magento\Cms\Controller\Index\Index $subject,
        \Closure $proceed,
        $coreRoute = null
    ) {
        
        if ($this->session->isLoggedIn()) {
            $pageId = 4;
            return $this->pageHelper->prepareResultPage($subject, $pageId);
        }
        return $proceed($coreRoute);
    }
}

Answer 2

I am not a magento2 guy. I can suggest you way how it could be done in magento 1.x. You can change it accordingly for magento2.

• In module's config.xml, under <frontend> tag, define your event like controller_action_layout_load_before and define an observer's function to perform action on this event.
• Check customer group of logged in user and if it matches with the group, then change value of web/default/cms_home_page area programmatically. You may need to change above setting again for other customer groups also.
• It may be better not to change system configuration, but to redirect using: header('Location: '.Mage::helper('core/url')->getHomeUrl(<your-other-cms-page-url>)); from observer when desired condition meets.

Please let me know if you need any clarification.

Note: Terms used in this solution are from magento 1.x, not for 2.x. You need to make changes accordingly.