Automatically login my users to matomo through specific link

Naser_Aslam · October 10, 2021, 6:45am

@Lukas
Hi Everyone? I want my users to login to Matomo from specific link. I am following the below given guidance.
https://matomo.org/faq/how-to/faq_30/

My question is, after successful login I want my visitors to redirect at visitors log page instead of dashboard or home page.
Here is the link which I am using for my localhost system.
http://localhost/matomo/index.php?module=Login&action=logme&login=root16&password=140e4916d50e7f971b94bc9cedb27880

And if I set &url parameter then it redirects at home page again.

http://localhost/matomo/index.php?module=Login&action=logme&login=root16&password=140e4916d50e7f971b94bc9cedb27880&url=http://localhost/matomo/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index

Please help to redirect my user to land directly at Visitor log section. Thanks!

Lukas · October 10, 2021, 12:00pm

Hi,

As you can see in the code

github.com

matomo-org/matomo/blob/03410d62c6885010bc0968dca9ebe5e23b7c8e87/plugins/Login/Controller.php#L238-L261

    
      
          function logme()
          {
              if (Config::getInstance()->General['login_allow_logme'] == 0) {
                  throw new Exception('This functionality has been disabled in config');
              }
          
          
    $password = Common::getRequestVar('password', null, 'string');
          
          
    $login = Common::getRequestVar('login', null, 'string');
              if (Piwik::hasTheUserSuperUserAccess($login)) {
                  throw new Exception(Piwik::translate('Login_ExceptionInvalidSuperUserAccessAuthenticationMethod', array("logme")));
              }
          
          
    $currentUrl = 'index.php';
          
          
    if ($this->idSite) {
                  $currentUrl .= '?idSite=' . $this->idSite;
              }
          
          
    $urlToRedirect = Common::getRequestVar('url', $currentUrl, 'string');

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Matomo redirects to the URL provided by ?url=

Naser_Aslam · October 10, 2021, 2:24pm

Hi @Lukas Thanks for quick response. Yes it redirects to the url parameter but my question is, if we want to redirect at specific part of Matomo like Visitors → visitor Logs, then it asks for login credentials again. Please have a look at below URL and guide me how to redirect it to visitors log. Thanks!
http://localhost/matomo/index.php?module=Login&action=logme&login=root16&password=140e4916d50e7f971b94bc9cedb27880&url=http://localhost/matomo/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index