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Return value in login_form not working

I have a login form at the following page:

site.com/en/downloads

“en” is the user_language ( and is stored as such in a global var )

when I login, the form redirects me to:

site.com/downloads

While it should redirect me to the URL with my user_language

I’ve tried numerous things, but the value of the return value always gets ignored.

  • return =”{site_url}/{user_language}/downloads”
  • return =”{site_url}”
  • return =“http://site.com”
  • return =“http://google.com”
  • return =“about/index”

they all redirect to site.com/downloads.

the code that is being outputted ( for the last example ) looks like this:

<form method="post" action="http://site.com/"  >
<div class='hiddenFields'>
<input type="hidden" name="XID" value="9fae3b1b5fcf882776da6638706595af73a7b15d" />
<input type="hidden" name="ACT" value="7" />
<input type="hidden" name="RET" value="about/index" />
<input type="hidden" name="site_id" value="1" />
</div>

I have an .htaccess that looks like this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

UPDATE:

I tried using freemember as suggested, but the problem remains the same:

I've set the return value to "about/index", but I'm still being redirected to site.com/downloads.

The code generated by freemember looks solid though, so something must be overriding the return value.

<form method="post" action="http://site.com/downloads"  >
<div class='hiddenFields'>
<input type="hidden" name="XID" value="d9483688fbf63d9ea47e89a66e074b99f5b8465c" />
<input type="hidden" name="ACT" value="18" />
<input type="hidden" name="_params" value="wvkEsN96mPfmlhgerM2ppxGbMmiLJrz0Ntn7apKer/rmBpQaUozvSM0TvkVN66QlX/ptCM1IQGsuZuw7X3mzlOMCFIUyYFpbZy5h7nfPJMiHLdpqXqwBFOiA/zcNW0GKAIicv4JPAS2mfHKQE+mb2Ct0L+jhGz0NlSdELuMOeqQPJJ3B7U90D5w/sKTeaX5zaOMSvKJ4LZ7xP0Dn+UxE9g==" />
<input type="hidden" name="return_url" value="about/index" />
<input type="hidden" name="site_id" value="1" />
</div>
Solution

  • I finally figured it out.

    Apparently I was still using a small plugin called "Twomile Login Redirect" which hijacked my login code ( even when it was disabled, I had to remove it )

    So all is well now.

    Lesson learned: remove old plugins :)