hey thanks for all the replies. anyway this is my login.page.xml (just the same as the pages.xml but specifically for login page. i just use this because this is generated by seam-gen): | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <page xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages" | xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" | xsi:schemaLocation="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages-2.0.xsd" | login-required="false" action="#{userAuthenticator.checkLogin}"> | | <navigation> | <rule if="#{identity.loggedIn}"> | <redirect view-id="/dashboard1234.xhtml"/> | </rule> | </navigation> | | <navigation from-action="#{identity.logout}"> | <redirect view-id="/login.xhtml" /> | </navigation> | | <navigation from-action="#{identity.login}"> | <rule if="#{identity.loggedIn}"> | <redirect view-id="/dashboard.xhtml"/> | </rule> | </navigation> | | </page> i agree with wachtda that the page action doesnt fire if you try to access the login.seam directly. when i use the base url instead, i am redirected to login.seam and the page action for login page is executed. rey View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4125153#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...