Drupal user login URL FAQ: What the heck is my Drupal user login URL?
A funny story about this Drupal website is that after I first installed it — with my own custom theme where I don’t display the Drupal login link — I couldn’t remember where the Drupal user login page was located. With my Drupal theme changes I didn’t have a link to the Drupal login page anywhere on my Drupal website pages.
After a little bit of poking around, I finally realized the Drupal login page is located at this pretty obvious URI:
/user
Given that URI, that means that for this alvinalexander.com website, the complete Drupal user login URL is:
http://alvinalexander.com/user
Other Drupal login related URLs
While I'm in the Drupal login neighborhood, here are three more URLs. The Drupal user registration URL will look something like this:
http://www.alvinalexander.com/user/register
The Drupal user “request new password” URL will look like this:
http://www.alvinalexander.com/user/password
And wherever there is a Drupal login page, there is probably a Drupal logout page, and by default the Drupal user logout URL looks like this:
http://www.alvinalexander.com/logout
Drupal user pages
As a final note, if a Drupal website supports user accounts, by default you'll be able to find the Drupal user account pages at URLs similar to this:
http://www.alvinalexander.com/users/alvin
More generally then, the the URI for a Drupal user page looks like this:
/users/username
As you can see by looking at my page, a “Drupal user” page shows information about the Drupal user. This page is easily customized, and is likely different for most Drupal websites.
Drupal login problems
As a final note, if you're having a problem logging into your own Drupal website, even though you’re sure you have the right username and password, see my article titled "Help, I can't login to my Drupal website after an upgrade". While that article talks about problems after a Drupal upgrade, I've seen the same login problem happen under other circumstances.
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