To configure your project to run with Kratos and use a custom UI, you need to follow these steps: 1. Connect your application to your project and its admin APIs: Sign in at [console.ory.sh](https://console.ory.sh/), select Connect from the left navigation panel, and copy the URL from the SDK Configuration section. Open the

app.config.js

file in your project and replace the

KRATOS_URL

variable with the SDK URL you copied from your project. [source](https://www.ory.sh/docs/getting-started/integrate-auth/react-native#connect-to-your-project) 2. Define the paths where Ory calls your custom UI: Go to [Ory Console](https://console.ory.sh/) → User Interface. This view allows you to define the URLs of UI views for every self-service flow. You can use relative or absolute paths. Unless you set a custom UI base URL, relative links always use your SDK Configuration URL as the base. [source](https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/bring-your-own-ui/configure-ory-to-use-your-ui) 3. Configure Ory to use your UI views hosted on local machine: When developing locally, you can configure Ory Network to use UI views hosted on your local machine. To do that, use [Ory Tunnel](https://www.ory.sh/docs/guides/cli/proxy-and-tunnel) to create a connection between your local environment and Ory Network and configure the system to accept

<http://localhost:1234/>

as part of the same domain as your project. [source](https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/bring-your-own-ui/configure-ory-to-use-your-ui#development) 4. Configure the login and registration URLs: You can configure which login and registration URLs to use in the Ory Identities config. For example, you can set the

ui_url

under

selfservice.flows.login

and

selfservice.flows.registration

to point to your login and registration pages respectively. [source](https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/self-service/flows/user-login#login-for-server-side-browser-clients) [source](https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/self-service/flows/user-registration#registration-for-server-side-browser-clients) Please note that Ory Kratos is API-only and doesn't ship with an administrative user interface. You must implement that UI yourself. If you need a managed solution that takes care of everything, consider signing up to [Ory Network](https://console.ory.sh/). [source](https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/quickstart#setup)

Yes, you can use the

?return_to=

query parameter to set dynamic redirects on self-service flows. This means that after a user completes a flow (like login or registration), they will be redirected to the URL specified in the

return_to

parameter. Here's an example of how you can start a self-service login flow with a

return_to

URL set:

bash curl -X GET 'http://<your-project>.<http://projects.oryapis.com/self-service/login/browser?return_to=http://localhost:3000|projects.oryapis.com/self-service/login/browser?return_to=http://localhost:3000>'

In this example, after the login flow is completed, the user will be redirected to

<http://localhost:3000>

. Please note that the

allow list

prevents Open Redirect Attacks by only allowing certain domains, or paths on a domain. So, make sure that your

return_to

URL is allowed. Also, remember that Ory Kratos and your UI must be hosted on the same top-level domain. For example,

<http://kratos.bar.com|kratos.bar.com>

and

<http://ui.bar.com|ui.bar.com>

will work, but

<http://kratos.bar.com|kratos.bar.com>

and

<http://not-ar.com|not-ar.com>

will not work. For more information, you can refer to the [Ory documentation on Browser redirects and flow completion](https://www.ory.sh/docs/concepts/redirects).