Laravel 5.4 redirection to custom url after login

You need to add the following lines into your LoginController:

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesUsers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class LoginController extends Controller
{
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Login Controller
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This controller handles authenticating users for the application and
| redirecting them to your home screen. The controller uses a trait
| to conveniently provide its functionality to your applications.
|
*/

use AuthenticatesUsers;


protected function authenticated(Request $request, $user)
{
if ( $user->isAdmin() ) {// do your magic here
    return redirect()->route('dashboard');
}

 return redirect('/home');
}
/**
 * Where to redirect users after login.
 *
 * @var string
 */
//protected $redirectTo = '/admin';

/**
 * Create a new controller instance.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function __construct()
{
    $this->middleware('guest', ['except' => 'logout']);
}
}

For newer versions of Laravel, please replace protected $redirectTo = RouteServiceProvider::HOME; with protected $redirectTo = '/newurl'; and replace newurl accordingly.

Tested with Laravel version-6

If you look in the AuthenticatesUsers trait you will see that in the sendLoginResponse method that there is a call made to $this->redirectPath(). If you look at this method then you will discover that the redirectTo can either be a method or a variable.

This is what I now have in my auth controller.

public function redirectTo() {
    $user = Auth::user();
    switch(true) {
        case $user->isInstructor():
            return '/instructor';
        case $user->isAdmin():
        case $user->isSuperAdmin():
            return '/admin';
        default:
            return '/account';
    }
}

The way I've done it by using AuthenticatesUsers trait.

\App\Http\Controllers\Auth\LoginController.php

Add this method to that controller:

/**
 * Check user's role and redirect user based on their role
 * @return 
 */
public function authenticated()
{
    if(auth()->user()->hasRole('admin'))
    {
        return redirect('/admin/dashboard');
    } 

    return redirect('/user/dashboard');
}