Laravel - Middleware How to change route to our desired page other than Login

Question

I m working on fresh laravel project.

I had install the laravel framework through composer then I created a route for testing purpose like this:

Route::get('/', function () {
return view('pages.home');
 });

This worked fine and I got the desired page. Now for understanding middleware I added this line of code:

Route::get('/', function () {
return view('pages.home');
 })->middleware('auth');

Now its throwing error of

Route [login] not defined.

What I know that, it throwing this error because I havent install any voyagers package thats why it not finding 'login' route.

But My question is How can I change that Route [login] to my desired page like Route [pages.notauth].

Please help me for this.

Answer 1

First run php artisan make:auth to make the Laravel auth boilerplate. Then in the LoginController add the the following:

class LoginController extends Controller {
    use AuthenticatesUsers;
    protected $redirectTo = '/home';

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('guest')->except('logout');
    }
 
    public function showLoginForm() {
           return view("pages.notlogin");
     }


 }

Update

The php artisan make:auth command is no longer available in the base Laravel installation. Since Laravel 6 to get a roughly equivalent effect you need to (a) install laravel/ui and (b) run:

php artisan ui bootstrap --auth

You can also use react or vue instead of bootstrap depending what you want to use in your UI.