Question

I have a symfony 2.1 project using FOSUserBundle. The bundle is installed correctly. All the functionalities work properly using the default /login form.

But now I want to change the login form route to be the same as the homepage (path: /).

I tried:

changing the security.yml – login_path:

firewalls:
    main:
        pattern: ^/
        form_login:
            provider: fos_userbundle
            csrf_provider: form.csrf_provider
            login_path: /
        logout:       true
        anonymous:    true

and the access_control to:

access_control:
    - { path: ^/login$, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
    - { path: ^/register, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
    - { path: ^/resetting, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
    - { path: ^/admin/, role: ROLE_ADMIN }        
    - { path: ^/*, role: ROLE_USER }
    - { path: ^/, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }

When I try to access the homepage it enters a infinite redirect (I assume)

The page isn’t redirecting properly Firefox has detected that the
server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will
never complete.

Also couldn’t find anything to troubleshoot this behaviour inside the FOSUserBundle documentation.

In short words: I want the first_page to act as login page.

Answer 1

You have a redirect loop.

access_control:
- { path: ^/login$, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }    #1
- { path: ^/register, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }  #2
- { path: ^/resetting, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY } #3
- { path: ^/admin/, role: ROLE_ADMIN }                      #4
- { path: ^/*, role: ROLE_USER }                            #5
- { path: ^/, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }          #6

This happens because first, you are telling access controll in #5 requires ROLE_USER BEFORE you tell it that it also requires IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY (both 5th and 6th rules match)

Access control is order sensitive, the rules apply in the order they are defined, try:

access_control:
- { path: ^/$, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY } # NOTE THE $
- { path: ^/login$, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
- { path: ^/register, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
- { path: ^/resetting, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
- { path: ^/admin/, role: ROLE_ADMIN }        
- { path: ^/*, role: ROLE_USER }

I moved the rule

- { path: ^/, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }

to the begining so it matches before

- { path: ^/*, role: ROLE_USER }