Logging Out an Authenticated User
Last updated on June 26, 2024.
This guide helps you create an authentication form to log out authenticated users.
Prerequisites
To follow the steps in this tutorial, you should understand the required directory structure for your codebase and the concept of pages and users. In addition, you need to understand the difference between Production and Staging Instaces.
Steps
Logging out an authenticated user is a two-step process:
- Step 1: Create a log-out form
- Step 2: Embed the log-out form
Step 1: Create the Log Out Form
app/forms/log_out.liquid
The difference between logging in and logging out is that you want to destroy the session with the latter. You must send a request by providing the attribute to the tag.
Step 2: Embed the Log Out Form
app/views/pages/log-out.liquid
Note
To set an expiration for user sessions, follow the steps outlined in the 'User Session Timeout' section of the Updating Instance Configuration tutorial.
Next Steps
Congratulations! You created a log-out for authenticated users. Now you can learn about resetting a user's password: Resetting the Password of an Authenticated User.
