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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Liferay redirects to iframe source URL upon logging in

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Alfonso Crisci

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Issue

  • After adding an Iframe to a Liferay page and set the Source URL of that Iframe to e.g. /web/guest/page2, Liferay will redirect to /web/guest/page2 when logging in through the Welcome homepage.

Environment

  • Liferay Portal 6.2
  • Liferay DXP 7.0+

Resolution

  • The above has to be considered a behavior that may not be changed in Liferay due to the nature and behavior of the Iframe element itself
  • As a workaround, portal administrators can set default.landing.page.path=/web/guest/home or the path could be set in the login request as redirect parameter.

Additional Information

  • The root cause is that the LAST_PATH attribute of the session is set to web/guest/page2 when the IFrame is loading the page: in such scenario, there is no way to tell if the request is coming from inside an IFrame. As far as the server is concerned, the user last accessed the page in the IFrame and will have no knowledge of the embedding page
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