If you need to go back to same page once it logged in then in list page and clicked to sign in link and then you logged in it has to go back to list page its self
Magento has default setting for not to redirect account page if you logged in from default page by default it will redirect to account dash board but you need to go page to list page for that follow the below steps--
Open header.phtml add this code at top of the file
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if(!Mage::helper('customer')->isLoggedIn()) {
$loginback=$this->helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl();
$check=strstr($loginback, 'customer/account/login');
if(!strlen($check)){
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->setLoginBackUrl($loginback);
}
}
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override app\code\core\Mage\Customer\controllers\AccountController.php to you local or custom module and add this function
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public function _loginPostRedirect()
{
$session = $this->_getSession();
if (!$session->getBeforeAuthUrl() || $session->getBeforeAuthUrl() == Mage::getBaseUrl()) {
// Set default URL to redirect customer to
$session->setBeforeAuthUrl(Mage::helper('customer')->getAccountUrl());
// Redirect customer to the last page visited after logging in
if ($session->isLoggedIn()) {
$backUrlcustom=Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->getLoginBackUrl();
if (!Mage::getStoreConfigFlag('customer/startup/redirect_dashboard')) {
$referer = $this->getRequest()->getParam(Mage_Customer_Helper_Data::REFERER_QUERY_PARAM_NAME);
if ($referer) {
$referer = Mage::helper('core')->urlDecode($referer);
if ($this->_isUrlInternal($referer)) {
$session->setBeforeAuthUrl($referer);
}
}
} else if ($session->getAfterAuthUrl()) {
$session->setBeforeAuthUrl($session->getAfterAuthUrl(true));
} else if (strlen($backUrlcustom)) {
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->setLoginBackUrl('');
$session->setBeforeAuthUrl($backUrlcustom);
}
} else {
$session->setBeforeAuthUrl(Mage::helper('customer')->getLoginUrl());
}
} else if ($session->getBeforeAuthUrl() == Mage::helper('customer')->getLogoutUrl()) {
$session->setBeforeAuthUrl(Mage::helper('customer')->getDashboardUrl());
} else {
if (!$session->getAfterAuthUrl()) {
$session->setAfterAuthUrl($session->getBeforeAuthUrl());
}
if ($session->isLoggedIn()) {
$session->setBeforeAuthUrl($session->getAfterAuthUrl(true));
}
}
$this->_redirectUrl($session->getBeforeAuthUrl(true));
}
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