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I'm trying to password protect a staging site. So I've put a {% requireLogin %} at the top of my _layout.html inside of a conditional tag. It's working except the redirect after login always goes to the dashboard instead of the original page. What am I doing wrong?

I'm aware of the possibility of using htaccess protection, but I think doing it the "Craft way" is nicer.

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    What version of Craft are you using (Personal Client or Pro)? Is your login form on the front end? Or are you using the standard /admin control panel login?
    – Steve Rowling
    Commented Mar 17, 2015 at 14:26
  • Be sure you're testing with a user account that doesn't have CP access as well.
    – Brad Bell ♦
    Commented Mar 17, 2015 at 15:44
  • I'm using the Pro-Version and the standard /admin login. So it's not supposed to work for users with CP access as well? Would be nice if that was configurable.
    – Andreas
    Commented Mar 18, 2015 at 15:11
  • Are you visiting the site without "www" and have "www" as part of your siteUrl in settings or vice versa? I once had a redirect like you are describing and think that was the cause.
    – Wolfram Gehring
    Commented Jan 11, 2017 at 23:04

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{% requireLogin %} is intended for use with your own login form on the frontend rather than the standard /admin one. From the docs for loginPath:

The URI Craft should use for user login on the front-end.

Which means you create your own frontend login form, and set that as the loginPath. As you don't have that, it's defaulting to the default login instead, which redirects users to the admin dashboard instead of the page they were on.

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  • Clive, I think you can remove a ? or two :-)
    – carlcs
    Commented Jan 11, 2017 at 15:58

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