Customizing front-end login/logout redirects

Question

1. I have "manage" link that redirects to domain.com/login.
2. "login" is custom front-end page that after logging in redirects to homepage.
3. After logging in when I click "manage" again the domain.com/login redirects me to CP dashboard.
4. Signing out from CP redirects me to default Craft login page.

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1. How to redirect directly to dashboard after logging in?
2. How to redirect directly to domain.com/login or homepage after signing out?

I'm also using manager as cpTrigger, and this is my config:

'postLoginRedirect' => 'manager',
'logoutPath' => 'login',
'cpTrigger' => 'manager',

For some reason according to #1 postLoginRedirect doesn't take effect same for #2 and logoutPath, maybe I'm using them in the wrong way?

login/index.html code:

{% extends "login/_layout" %}
{% set title = "Welcome back, friend :)" %}
{% block content %}
          <div class="box">

          <form method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8">
          {{ getCsrfInput() }}
          <input type="hidden" name="action" value="users/login">

            {% if errorMessage is defined %}
             <article class="message is-danger">
              <div class="message-body">   
               {{ errorMessage }}
              </div>
             </article>
            {% endif %}

            <div class="field">
              <p class="control has-icon">
                <input class="input" id="loginName" type="text" name="loginName" placeholder="Email">
                <span class="icon">
                <i class="fa fa-envelope"></i>
                </span>
              </p>
            </div>

              <div class="field">
              <p class="control has-icon">
                <input class="input" id="password" type="password" name="password" placeholder="Password">
                <span class="icon">
                <i class="fa fa-lock"></i>
                </span>
              </p>
            </div>

              <div class="field">
              <p class="control">
              <label class="checkbox">
                <input type="checkbox" name="rememberMe" value="1">
                Keep me logged in
              </label>
              </p>
            </div>

              <hr>

              <p class="control">
                <button class="button is-primary" type="submit">Login</button>
                <a class="button is-default" href="{{ siteUrl }}">Cancel</a>

              </p>
          </form>
          </div>
            <p class="has-text-centered">
              <a href="{{ url('login/register') }}">Register an Account</a>
              | 
              <a href="{{ url('login/forgotpassword') }}">Forgot password</a>
              | 
              <a href="{{ url('contact') }}">Need help?</a>
            </p>
{% endblock %}

Answer 1

1. How to redirect directly to dashboard after logging in?

Since your login form is on the front-end of the site, the postLoginRedirect should do what you're looking for.

You can see the logic Craft uses to determine where to send a user after a successful login here: https://github.com/craftcms/cms/tree/master-v2/src/controllers/UsersController.php#L1599-L1614

How to redirect directly to domain.com/login or homepage after signing out?

You've got the logoutPath config setting set 'login', which is going to log a user out as soon as they hit the /login URI, which probably isn't what you're looking for.

There currently isn't a config setting to decide where to send a user after they've been logged out, but you could write a very simple plugin that listened to the onLogout event and redirected to wherever you wished.