Redirect if authenticated in Laravel 5.3

Question

I'm using the Auth scaffold in Laravel 5.3 and I've changed the routes for the auth. So instead of /login and /register I use /signin and /signup.

In Laravel 5.2 we had this by default in the auth middleware,

public function handle($request, Closure $next, $guard = null)
{
    if (Auth::guard($guard)->guest()) {
        if ($request->ajax() || $request->wantsJson()) {
            return response('Unauthorized.', 401);
        }

        return redirect()->guest('login');
    }

    return $next($request);
}

This would redirect to the login route if the user wasn't logged in. In Laravel 5.3 we have this,

public function handle($request, Closure $next, $guard = null)
{
    if (Auth::guard($guard)->check()) {
        return redirect('/');
    }

    return $next($request);
}

This redirects an already logged in user to the default route /. So they switched it around in 5.3. Instead of defining where guest go, we define were logged in users go.

My question is, how would I natively to Laravel 5.3 change were guests go?

Because at the moment, people who try to access sites protected by the middleware automatically end up at a /login route. I would like to change this to /signin but I can't find anywhere to customize this behaviour.

Any ideas?

Jason McCreary Jason McCreary · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-24T04:40:50

how would I "natively" to Laravel 5.3 change were guests go?

Looks like there's a new unauthenticated() method in app/Exceptions/Handler.php which handles unauthenticated users and redirects to login.

As this is part of your app, no reason you couldn't customize it to redirect elsewhere.

Redirect if authenticated in Laravel 5.3

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