Salesforce Login Page: Custom login page with Visualforce and Apex for Salesforce Communities

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This article is a simple explanation of the use of the Site.Login() Apex method. The documentation in detail from Salesforce is here http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_classes_sites.htm.

STEP 1:
Enable Communities by going to the below path, Your Name -> Setup ->  App Setup -> Customize -> Communities -> Settings




STEP 2:
Create a new Community as shown below



STEP 3:
Create a Apex Class as shown below


Note: Replace 'null' with the URL to be redirected to after login.

STEP 4:

Create a Visualforce page 'CustomLoginPage' as shown below



STEP 5:
Navigate to Manage Communities from the setup menu, and click the 'Force.com' link as below



STEP 6:

Make the following changes as shown below.

STEP 7:

Modify the Apex Class 'CommunitiesLoginController' as below

STEP 8:

 Modify the Visualforce page 'CommunitiesLogin' as below
STEP 9:

 Make sure you publish the community. Navigate to the URL and you should see the custom login page as below.







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13 comments

  1. AnonymousJune 10, 2014 at 12:07 AM

    Very Sleek explanation...Thanks for the post :)

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  2. shadowdarknessSeptember 15, 2014 at 5:43 AM

    Thank you.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2015 at 9:19 PM

    This login will authenticate with what data?

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  4. AnonymousJuly 8, 2015 at 4:21 AM

    I did as you wrote, and is not working...

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  5. AnonymousAugust 14, 2015 at 7:44 AM

    Cool article, Questions tho, are you only redirecting the user to your page when they get to the standard login page? Couldn't this be achieved by just changing settings through the UI?

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  6. UnknownJune 13, 2016 at 1:30 PM

    i tried the above code, but the user is been redirected to same page instead of redirecting to start url or community landing page. Did anyone try this?

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    1. AnonymousJune 25, 2016 at 11:42 AM

      Yeah I get an infinite loop of login pages too

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    2. UnknownJune 14, 2021 at 1:42 AM

      Not Working for me as well.

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  7. Saurabh SisodiaApril 12, 2018 at 3:39 PM

    i want to users to redirect to custom URL after login. how to do that?

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  8. UnknownApril 18, 2019 at 7:26 AM

    Thank you so much for the post very clear steps.

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  9. UnknownOctober 11, 2019 at 1:43 AM

    Thanks for this code.
    I am facing some difficulties while creating the test class for "customlogincontroller".
    Please share the test class for the same.

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  10. UnknownOctober 11, 2019 at 1:44 AM

    Thanks for this code.
    I am facing some difficulties while creating the test class for "customlogincontroller".
    Please share the test class for the same.

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  11. Nitin SharmaMay 25, 2020 at 5:32 AM

    thank u so much

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