When a user logs in, Laravel will redirect them to a page defined by the $redirectTo attribute in the login controller. Let's change this from /home to /.
app/Http/Auth/Controllers/LoginController.php:
class LoginController extends Controller { ... protected $redirectTo = '/'; ... }
Let's also update the RedirectIfAuthenticated middleware class so that if a logged-in user attempts to view the login page, they're redirect to / (instead of the default /home value.)
app/Http/Middleware/RedirectIfAuthenticated.php:
... if (Auth::guard($guard)->check()) { return redirect('/'); }
With that done, our login process will now work correctly.
