Question

I have been looking around the Tank auth code to see how things are done, but it seems a little confusing to find out how to change the path of the default login.

I wanted to change it to groups/login or users/sign_in, but that wasn’t an easy task. I’m wondering whether I should change that from the routing file or any other file.

Any idea how to get around with this little issue?

Answer 1

I’m wondering whether I should change that from the routing file

Yes, that’s exactly what URI Routing is for:

$route['your/desired/url'] = 'auth/login';

If you need to kill the old URL for some reason, you can set it to something empty:

$route['auth/login'] = FALSE;

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Unfortunately, the Tank Auth login url is assumed to be auth/login, and there are several redirects that must be edited. I recommend adding a custom config setting to config/tank_auth.php:

$config['login_url'] = 'your/desired/url';

Then replace all occurrences of redirect('/auth/login') with:

redirect($this->config->item('login_url', 'tank_auth'));

in the Auth controller and anywhere else it appears.