Customizing your Account Portal redirects

After a user signs in or signs up, Clerk automatically redirects users back to your application by appending a redirect_url query param on the Account Portal page. However, Clerk provides various options for you to customize where your users are redirected to.

Environment variables

You should define the paths you want the users to be redirected to via environment variables. In this example, we redirect users to /dashboard after signing in, and to /onboarding after signing up.

.env
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_AFTER_SIGN_IN_URL=/dashboard
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_AFTER_SIGN_UP_URL=/onboarding

.env
CLERK_AFTER_SIGN_IN_URL=/dashboard
CLERK_AFTER_SIGN_UP_URL=/onboarding

Middleware

If you are using Next.js and want a more programmatically generated redirect option, you can use the auth().protect() method in your Clerk middleware.

middleware.ts
import { clerkMiddleware } from '@clerk/nextjs/server';
 
export default clerkMiddleware((auth, req) => {
  if (req.nextUrl.pathname.startsWith('/dashboard')) auth().protect();
});
 
export const config = {
  matcher: ['/((?!.*\\..*|_next).*)', '/', '/(api|trpc)(.*)'],
};

You can explicitly define the redirect paths by passing the afterSignInUrl and afterSignUpUrl properties to the respective components. In general, you should use environment variables instead.

Control components

example.js
function App() {
  return (
    <ClerkProvider
      publishableKey={clerkPubKey}
      afterSignInUrl="/dashboard"
      afterSignUpUrl="/onboarding"
    >
      <SignedIn>
        <Welcome />
      </SignedIn>
      <SignedOut>
        <RedirectToSignIn />
      </SignedOut>
    </ClerkProvider>
  );
}

example.js
function App() {
  return (
    <ClerkProvider publishableKey={clerkPubKey}>
      <SignedIn>
        <Welcome />
      </SignedIn>
      <SignedOut>
        <RedirectToSignIn
          afterSignInUrl="/dashboard"
          afterSignUpUrl="/onboarding"
        />
      </SignedOut>
    </ClerkProvider>
  );
}

example.js
function App() {
  return (
    <ClerkProvider publishableKey={clerkPubKey}>
      <SignedIn>
        <Welcome />
      </SignedIn>
      <SignedOut>
        <RedirectToSignUp
          afterSignInUrl="/dashboard"
          afterSignUpUrl="/onboarding"
        />
      </SignedOut>
    </ClerkProvider>
  );
}

<RedirectToSignIn /> or <RedirectToSignUp /> child components will always take precedence over <ClerkProvider>.

Button components

In the case that you are using a <SignInButton> or <SignUpButton>, you can also pass the properties into those components. We recommend defining both afterSignInUrl and afterSignUpUrl redirects in each button as some users may choose to sign up instead after attempting to sign in.

pages/index.js
import { SignInButton, SignUpButton } from "@clerk/nextjs";
 
export default function Home() {
return (
  <div>
    <h1>Welcome!</h1>
 
    <SignInButton afterSignInUrl="/dashboard" afterSignUpUrl="/onboarding">
      Sign in
    </SignInButton>
 
    <SignUpButton afterSignInUrl="/dashboard" afterSignUpUrl="/onboarding">
      Sign up
    </SignUpButton>
  </div>
);
}

example.js
import { SignInButton, SignUpButton } from "@clerk/clerk-react";
 
export default function Example() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Welcome!</h1>
 
      <SignInButton afterSignInUrl="/dashboard" afterSignUpUrl="/onboarding">
        Sign in
      </SignInButton>
 
      <SignUpButton afterSignInUrl="/dashboard" afterSignUpUrl="/onboarding">
        Sign up
      </SignUpButton>
    </div>
  );
}

pages/index.js
import { SignInButton, SignUpButton } from "@clerk/remix";
 
export default function Home() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Welcome!</h1>
 
      <SignInButton afterSignInUrl="/dashboard" afterSignUpUrl="/onboarding">
        Sign in
      </SignInButton>
 
      <SignUpButton afterSignInUrl="/dashboard" afterSignUpUrl="/onboarding">
        Sign up
      </SignUpButton>
    </div>
  );
}

pages/index.js
import { SignInButton, SignUpButton } from "gatsby-plugin-clerk";
 
export default function Home() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Welcome!</h1>
 
      <SignInButton afterSignInUrl="/dashboard" afterSignUpUrl="/onboarding">
        Sign in
      </SignInButton>
 
      <SignUpButton afterSignInUrl="/dashboard" afterSignUpUrl="/onboarding">
        Sign up
      </SignUpButton>
    </div>
  );
}

Last updated on January 9, 2024

Environment variables

Middleware

afterSignInUrl and afterSignUpUrl props

Control components

Button components

`afterSignInUrl` and `afterSignUpUrl` props