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Asked: 2026-06-17T12:32:57+00:00

I was trying to redirect users to the previous page after authentication. It works

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I was trying to redirect users to the previous page after authentication. It works well with the below codes.

The file login_page.php (the page where users enter login credentials) contains the below code which stores the SOURCE URL and passes it to next page.

<input type="hidden" name="url" value=<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ; ?> />

File do_authentication.php (page which does the authentication) has the code echo "<meta http-equiv='Refresh' content=0;url='$_POST[url]'>"; which redirects to SOURCE URL

In the normal situation it works, but in situations when user enters wrong credentials, the page is redirected to login_page.php and it asks the user to try again with correct credentials. At that time, ‘url’ value changes to login_page.php.

What is the correct/better logic to solve this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve always used the session to retain the original page when doing login. This will not work if the session isn’t supported. Then I just send the user to the home page.

    A Stack Overflow post discussing this is Redirect to previous page after logging in using PHP.

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