Redirect to Different Pages After Login With Spring Security

Spring Security allows developers to control authentication and authorization in Spring Boot applications. In many applications, different users need different dashboards after login. It provides role-based redirection using a custom authentication success handler. After successful login, users can be redirected to different pages based on their roles and authorities.

• Redirect users to different pages after successful login.
• Handle role-based access using ROLE_ADMIN and ROLE_USER.
• Improve user experience with personalized dashboards.

Implementation to Redirect to Different Pages After Login

Below are the implementation steps to redirect to different pages after login with spring.

Step 1: Create Spring Boot Project

Create a Spring Boot project using Spring Initializr with the following dependencies:

• Spring Web
• Spring Security
• Thymeleaf
• Lombok
• Spring DevTools
• Spring Data JPA
• MySQL Driver

After the project creation done, the folder structure will be like the below image:

Step 2: Configure application.properties

Add database and user credentials configuration inside application.properties.

spring.application.name=spring-security-redirect-pages

# Database Configuration
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/example
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.jpa.show-sql=true

# User Credentials
spring.security.user.name=user
spring.security.user.password=password
spring.security.user.roles=USER

# Admin Credentials

spring.security.admin.name=admin
spring.security.admin.password=password
spring.security.admin.roles=ADMIN

Step 3: Configure Spring Security

Create SecurityConfig.java inside the config package.

• SecurityFilterChain secures application URLs.
• /admin/** is accessible only to ADMIN users.

Step 4: Create Custom Authentication Success Handler

Create CustomAuthenticationSuccessHandler.java inside the config package.

• Checks authenticated user roles.
• Redirects ADMIN users to /admin/home.

Step 5: Create Admin Controller

Create AdminController.java.

• Handles requests for the admin dashboard.
• Returns adminHome.html page.

Step 6: Create User Controller

Create UserController.java.

• Handles user dashboard requests.
• Returns login page for authentication.

Step 7: Main Application Class

Open the main class and write the below code. (No change are required)

Step 8: Create Login Page

Create login.html inside templates.

Step 9: Create User Home Page

Displayed after successful USER login.

Step 10: Create Admin Home Page

Displayed after successful ADMIN login.

Step 12: Run the Application

Run the Spring Boot application. After completing the project, it will start at port 8080.

Login page:

API:

http://localhost:8080/login

If we enter the user credential the it redirects to the user home page.

• username: user
• password: password

If we enter the admin credential the it redirects to the user home page.

• username: admin
• password: password

Output:

AdminHome page:

UserHome page:

After hitting the URL, the below page will redirect.