redirect successful login to previous page, unless triggered by checkout button

The webassist tutorials have made it relatively simple to produce my website - I am almost always able to find an answer by searching the support forum. For my current issue, redirecting a successful login to the page logged in from (unless triggerred by the checkout button), I have not been able to figure it out myself.

Using eCart and Security Assist tutorials, I have a checkout process that triggers login with the cart page, using the checkout rule - if the checkout button is pushed on the cart page, or from any page's Quick Cart, login triggers and, if successful, passes customer through to the checkout page - perfect. However, I added a login button to each page which permits customers to register/login before they have created cart contents and are ready to proceed to checkout ... how can I redirect this successful login back to the page they were on, instead of the checkout page?

make the login button a link that passes the current page name as a querystring variable to the login page:

<a href="login.php?accesscheck=<?php echo((isset($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]))?$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]:"") ?>">Log in</a>

the login behavior should use the accesscheck url variable as the redirect location.

But, somehow my login page is now no longer recognized on my localhost ... the rest of my site works fine; I can add items to cart, move between pages, etc., but when I hit login, or try to checkout from the cart page, "Internet Explorer cannot display webpage" (?)

I have tried to push the logout.php page, hoping to clear any session issue, but it wouldn't load either. By closing the window, clearing browsing history, etc., I am able to get back in ... however, on the login page, entering a valid user from the database, it fails again.

Thoughts?

try using Fire Fox for testing, it will probably give you a more intelligible error. also try adding the following code at line 1 to turn error reporting on:

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('display_errors','on');

?>

"The page isn't redirecting properly. Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete. This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies."

This is what is produced

By changing nothing (that I can think of), my entire site seems to be testing well on Firefox, but I am still getting an error on IE.

This is why you get the BIG bucks ... :o)

Anything pop to mind?

this error means the site is in a n endless loop.

it is redirecting to a page that is causing it to redirect to another page that is causing it to redirect to another page etc.

What page is it redirecting to?

what access rule is on that page?

what is the redirect if that rule fails?

Now made more curious by the fact that it is working on Firefox(?).

Going through your suggestions now.

Not logged in - add items to cart - click login in the cart page header - logs in, but the checkout button goes "the requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated."

The checkout button on the cart page, and in the header quick cart, were redirecting to the checkout page up to that point. Unlike in IE, I am able to use my logout button to clear session, which gets the site back to normal - everything works fine until I run that one scenario: add items (not logged in) - login from header on cart page - then use checkout button.

My access to checkout.php is "logged into users"
Page redirect from cart is checkout.php
If access denied to checkout.php "login.php?checkout=1"

If I am not logged in, and go to a products detail page - login from there - it logs me in, but returns me to my blank details.php page (no product info).