CakePHP: Prevent Auth component's "authError" message on homepage - cakephp

Question

I have a CakePHP project where I modified "app/config/routes.php" so that the root points to the "Users" controller's "dashboard" action. In other words, these two URLs go to the same place:
http://example.com/
http://example.com/users/dashboard
I have the "Auth" component set up in my "App" controller like so:
class AppController extends Controller {
var $components = array('Auth', 'Session');
function beforeFilter() {
$this->Auth->authorize = 'controller';
$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'dashboard');
if ($this->Auth->user()) {
$this->set('logged_in', true);
}
else {
$this->set('logged_in', false);
}
}
}
I want it so that if a non-authenticated user goes straight to http://example.com/users/dashboard , they are taken to the login page with the "Auth" component's "authError" message showing, but if they go to http://example.com/ , they are taken to the login page without the "Auth" component's "authError" message showing. Is this possible?

Answer 1

I resolved this by putting the following code in my "Users" controller's "login" action:
if ($this->Session->read('Auth.redirect') == $this->webroot && $this->Session->read('Message.auth.message') == $this->Auth->authError) {
$this->Session->delete('Message.auth');
}

Answer 2

been looking for somthing like that for a long time! Thank you.
I had to make a little change then $this->webroot is not "/":
if (str_replace("//","/",$this->webroot.$this->Session->read('Auth.redirect')) == $this->webroot && $this->Session->read('Message.auth.message') == $this->Auth->authError) {
$this->Session->delete('Message.auth');
}

Answer 3

Well, I don't understand why sometimes you show the error and why sometimes not.. but you can afford this creating an isAuthorized method and modifying all the logic of the default AuthComponent behavior.
Open your Auth component and check for method "startup()". There, at it's last line, you will se this:
$this->Session->setFlash($this->authError, $this->flashElement, array(), 'auth');
$controller->redirect($controller->referer(), null, true);
This is the part responsible for displaying the error.
Before it, you will se...
if ($this->isAuthorized($type)) {
return true;
}
So you can change your isAuthorized method to change this message when you want.
Is a lot of work for (I think..) nothing.
PS. There may be a simpler way to be ignoring me

Answer 4

If you really wants to prevent authError message on homepage and simple redirect to login page then you have to put false as parameter of authError
class AppController extends Controller {
public function initialize() {
parent::initialize();
$this->loadComponent('RequestHandler');
$this->loadComponent('Flash');
$this->loadComponent('Auth', [
'authError' => false
]);
}
}