Magento 1.9 redirect customer after registration - magento

Question

I would like to redirect all customers to a custom page after successful registration in Magento 1.9.
I have tried many things. Firstly, I am successfully overriding the core customer account controller.
I have attempted to customize the following actions:
createPostAction
_successProcessRegistration
_welcomeCustomer
By trying to set redirect url or by setting BeforeAuthUrl
//$successUrl = $this->_getUrl('*/*/index', array('_secure' => true));
$successUrl = $this->_getUrl('*/*/success');
$this->_getSession()->setBeforeAuthUrl('http://test.local/customer/account/success/');
if ($this->_getSession()->getBeforeAuthUrl()) {
$successUrl = $this->_getSession()->getBeforeAuthUrl(true);
}
return $successUrl;
Please note at this point, $successUrl is correct when it returns here. I see there are some post Dispatch methods that I am assuming are destorying this url and always returning to customer/account/index.
I have read several posts on this topic and cannot find a definitive answer that solves this question.
I have even set hidden form element 'success_url' in attempts to follow steps presented elsewhere as solutions to this.
What is the full, correct process that one needs to follow in order to be able to show a one time registration success page?

Answer 1

I know this is an old thread maybe this will help someone else out trying to accomplish the same thing. You can set the redirect URL in the register.phtml template directly without having to modify controllers or create a module. You can set success and error URLs with hidden inputs like this.
<input type="hidden" name="success_url" value="my-custom-success-url.html" />
<input type="hidden" name="error_url" value="my-custom-error-url.html" />
I used this to redirect the user back to where they entered the login/register process like this:
<?php $ref = $this->getRequest()->getParam('referer');?>
<input type="hidden" name="success_url" value="<?php echo !empty($ref)?Mage::helper('core')->urlDecode($ref):$this->getSuccessUrl(); ?>" />

Answer 2

if you want to do this for customer successfully then you can do this using event observer
after customer successfully magento trigger an event customer_register_success
This call an observer which will reequestion to custtom page
Mage::app()->getResponse()->setRedirct($Yourdreicurll);
Details:
Step1:
create config.xml is app/code/community/Amit/Custommodule/etc/ - See more at: http://www.amitbera.com/create-an-magento-extension-with-custom-database-table/#sthash.JSktrUD0.dpuf
and it code
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<config>
<modules>
<Amit_Custommodule>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</Amit_Custommodule>
</modules>
<global>
<models>
<custommodule>
<class>Amit_Custommodule_Model</class>
</custommodule>
</models>
</global>
<frontend>
<events>
<customer_register_success>
<observers>
<notify_user>
<class>custommodule/observer</class>
<method>myredirection</method>
</notify_user>
</observers>
</customer_register_success>
</events>
</frontend>
</config>
Step2:
create module control file Module name as Amit_Custommodule.xml at app/etc/modules/
it code is
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<Amit_Custommodule>
<codePool>community</codePool>
<active>true</active>
</Amit_Custommodule>
</modules>
</config>
Step3:
Create observer.php at Amit>Custommodule>Model
code is
<?php
class Amit_Custommodule_Model_Observer {
public function myredirection(Varien_Event_Observer $observer) {
$AccountController = $observer->getEvent()->getAccountController();
$Customer = $observer->getEvent()->getCustomer();
$response1 = Mage::app()->getResponse(); // observers have event args
$url = 'http://www.example.com/';
$response1->setRedirect($url);
Mage::app()->getFrontController()->sendResponse();
return;
}
}

Answer 3

You are doing this in right way, this is the best way to redirect customer to custom URL.
Go to customer accountcontroller find _welcomeCustomer method.
Search for $successUrl = $this->_getUrl('*/*/index', array('_secure' => true)); replace this code with your custom URL $successUrl = $this->_getUrl('costomURL', array('_secure' => true));
It works fine for me.