Login menu item as default: 403 error on redirect logout to this menu item

[sozzled]

Steps to reproduce the issue

See full discussion at https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=808&t=991877. All the information is there.

Expected result

Based on J! 3.10.5

Actual result

System information (as much as possible)

J! 4.0.6, PHP 8.0.5, Cassiopeia frontend, Atum backend

Additional comments

The user is not logged-out and the [guest only] menu item causes a 403 error. Please read observations and comments from several forum users: three people have confirmed this can be reproduced.

[prakhar3062]

I will check it and will try to improve

[sozzled]

This is pretty basic J!. When someone clicks the logout menu item they should be (1) logged-out, then (2) redirected—if a redirection target is set—to wherever the site manager has defined the target. This does not seem to be happening with J! 4.x which appears to reverse the sequence, i.e. (1) redirect to the target and then (2). Under J! 4.x, if the user has no access to the redirected target—i.e. before the logout occurs—a 403 error is generated.

This did not happen with J! 2.5 or J! 3.x.

I think this is a bug.

[brianteeman]

patience is a virtue ;)

As you know I have already confirmed that this is occurs when the home page is set to be com_users.

I have never done this before so I have no idea if it was ever possible.

[sozzled]

I have never done this before so I have no idea if it was ever possible.

Demonstrated (with J! 3.0.6) in the animation above.

[sozzled]

I gave up, deleted the test site, and consider this matter closed. It's been a waste of time trying to make this work.