Laravel 5.4 redirect to login if unauthenticated

Question

I have a custom login page for my laravel app. However, i have modified my Handler.php to first look like this

protected function unauthenticated($request, AuthenticationException $exception)
    {
        if ($request->expectsJson()) {
            return response()->json(['error' => 'Unauthenticated.'], 401);
        }

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

and even tried like this

protected function unauthenticated($request, AuthenticationException $exception)
    {
        if ($request->expectsJson()) {
            return response()->json(['error' => 'Unauthenticated.'], 401);
        }

        return redirect('login');
    }

However, once I get to login, i get this error

How can i fix this problem?.

Answer 1

This worked for me

in the web.php

Route::get('login', 'Auth\LoginController@login');

Route::group(['middleware' => ['auth']], function() {
//  Route::auth();

in the login controller

public function login(){
        return view('login-register');
    }

in the handler.php

protected function unauthenticated($request, AuthenticationException $exception)
    {
        if ($request->expectsJson()) {
            return response()->json(['error' => 'Unauthenticated.'], 401);
        }

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