Laravel 5 Redirecting to login page after authentication instead of Dashboard - laravel-5.1

Question

I have this problem, my application should redirect users to admin area whose routes are protected (have middle auth). When I login it redirects to login page again but when place the dashboard route outside the route group, it behaves well. What may be the problem? This is my code:
Code for protected route (does not work) after login
Route::group(['middleware'=>'auth'], function(){
Route::get('backend/dashboard', array('as'=>'dashboard', 'uses'=>'BackendDashboardController#getDashboard'));
});
Code for dashboard route placed outside the route group (Works well after login)
Route::get('backend/dashboard', array('as'=>'dashboard', 'uses'=>'BackendDashboardController#getDashboard'));
Auth controller - Post login function
protected function postLogin() {
$request = Input::all();
$user = array(
'email' => $request['email'],
'password' => $request['password']
);
if ($this->auth->attempt($user)) {
return redirect(route('dashboard'));
}else{
return redirect(route('login'));
}
}
I really want to protect my admin routes and place all of them under auth middleware. Kindly avice

Answer 1

It only redirects, if you are not authorize/loggedin, otherwise it works fine.
and I think you are missing something in Route::group() you also need to mention the prefix eg
Route::group(['prefix'=>'backend', 'middleware'=>'auth'], function(){
Route::get('dashboard', array('as'=>'dashboard', 'uses'=>'BackendDashboardController#getDashboard'));
});
Edited
Also try to update your attempt method, then try it, eg:
if (Auth::attempt(['email' => $email, 'password' => $password])) {
// Authentication passed...
return redirect()->intended('dashboard');
}