diff --git a/bootstrap/app.php b/bootstrap/app.php
index 1f3cff6..6389bc9 100644
--- a/bootstrap/app.php
+++ b/bootstrap/app.php
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 
+use App\Support\AdminArea;
 use Illuminate\Foundation\Application;
 use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Exceptions;
 use Illuminate\Foundation\Configuration\Middleware;
@@ -52,6 +53,22 @@ return Application::configure(basePath: dirname(__DIR__))
 
         // Stripe posts server-to-server with its own signature (no CSRF token).
         $middleware->validateCsrfTokens(except: ['webhooks/stripe']);
+
+        // ApplicationBuilder::withMiddleware() defaults this to
+        // fn () => route('login') BEFORE this callback ever runs — always the
+        // PORTAL's Fortify page, regardless of which side of the site the
+        // guest was actually turned away from. In non-exclusive (shared)
+        // mode that sends a guest bounced off /admin to a sign-in form whose
+        // table holds no operators; exclusive mode happened to self-correct
+        // only because RestrictAdminHost 404s the wrong host before this
+        // ever ran. Fixed for both modes at once, rather than relying on
+        // which one a given deployment happens to run: ask AdminArea, which
+        // both routes/web.php's own registration and RestrictAdminHost
+        // already treat as the one source of truth for "is this the
+        // console".
+        $middleware->redirectGuestsTo(
+            fn (Request $request) => AdminArea::isConsole($request) ? route('admin.login') : route('login'),
+        );
     })
     ->withExceptions(function (Exceptions $exceptions): void {
         $exceptions->shouldRenderJsonWhen(
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Admin/AdminConsoleTest.php b/tests/Feature/Admin/AdminConsoleTest.php
index 7ab5870..5862140 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Admin/AdminConsoleTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Admin/AdminConsoleTest.php
@@ -5,10 +5,44 @@ use App\Models\User;
 
 $adminRoutes = ['admin.overview', 'admin.customers', 'admin.instances', 'admin.hosts', 'admin.provisioning', 'admin.revenue'];
 
-it('redirects guests from the admin console to login', function (string $route) {
-    $this->get(route($route))->assertRedirect('/login');
+it('redirects guests from the admin console to the CONSOLE login, not the portal one', function (string $route) {
+    // Not '/login': that is Fortify's portal page, whose table holds no
+    // operators — a sign-in a guest bounced off the console could never
+    // complete. bootstrap/app.php's redirectGuestsTo() asks AdminArea which
+    // side this request was for. This suite's default (ADMIN_HOSTS="",
+    // phpunit.xml) is non-exclusive/shared mode; the exclusive-mode side of
+    // the same fix is covered separately below.
+    $this->get(route($route))->assertRedirect(route('admin.login'));
 })->with($adminRoutes);
 
+it('sends a guest to the right login for whichever side they hit, in exclusive mode too', function () {
+    // The other of the two modes redirectGuestsTo() has to get right — see
+    // the shared-mode version of this test above. AdminArea::isConsole()
+    // reads admin_access.* LIVE, per request (unlike route domain-binding,
+    // which this suite's routes do not carry: they are compiled once at
+    // boot under the default non-exclusive ADMIN_HOSTS="", so both
+    // route('admin.login') and route('login') below resolve against
+    // whichever host the current request came in on, exactly as production
+    // would resolve them for a request truly received on that host).
+    config()->set('admin_access.hosts', ['admin.example.test']);
+    config()->set('admin_access.exclusive', true);
+
+    $consoleLocation = $this->get('http://admin.example.test/admin')
+        ->assertRedirect()->headers->get('Location');
+
+    expect(parse_url($consoleLocation, PHP_URL_HOST))->toBe('admin.example.test')
+        ->and(parse_url($consoleLocation, PHP_URL_PATH))->toBe('/admin/login');
+
+    // A different, non-console host in the same exclusive setup still gets
+    // the PORTAL's sign-in page — this fix is not a blanket change to every
+    // guest redirect, only to the ones landing on the console side.
+    $portalLocation = $this->get('http://app.example.test/dashboard')
+        ->assertRedirect()->headers->get('Location');
+
+    expect(parse_url($portalLocation, PHP_URL_HOST))->toBe('app.example.test')
+        ->and(parse_url($portalLocation, PHP_URL_PATH))->toBe('/login');
+});
+
 it('forbids non-admin users from the admin console', function (string $route) {
     $user = User::factory()->create();
 
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Admin/DatacenterTest.php b/tests/Feature/Admin/DatacenterTest.php
index a6400c9..934ad7b 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Admin/DatacenterTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Admin/DatacenterTest.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use Livewire\Livewire;
 // admin() helper is defined in HostManagementTest (global Pest function).
 
 it('gates the datacenters page', function () {
-    $this->get(route('admin.datacenters'))->assertRedirect('/login');
+    $this->get(route('admin.datacenters'))->assertRedirect(route('admin.login'));
     $this->actingAs(User::factory()->create(['is_admin' => false]))->get(route('admin.datacenters'))->assertForbidden();
     $this->actingAs(admin(), 'operator')->get(route('admin.datacenters'))->assertOk()->assertSee(__('datacenters.title'));
 });
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Admin/HostManagementTest.php b/tests/Feature/Admin/HostManagementTest.php
index d94ebaa..1d29ffd 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Admin/HostManagementTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Admin/HostManagementTest.php
@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Queue;
 use Livewire\Livewire;
 
 it('gates the add-host page', function () {
-    $this->get(route('admin.hosts.create'))->assertRedirect('/login');
+    $this->get(route('admin.hosts.create'))->assertRedirect(route('admin.login'));
     $this->actingAs(User::factory()->create(['is_admin' => false]))->get(route('admin.hosts.create'))->assertForbidden();
     $this->actingAs(admin(), 'operator')->get(route('admin.hosts.create'))->assertOk()->assertSee(__('hosts.create_title'));
 });
 
 it('gates the host detail page', function () {
     $host = Host::factory()->create();
-    $this->get(route('admin.hosts.show', $host))->assertRedirect('/login');
+    $this->get(route('admin.hosts.show', $host))->assertRedirect(route('admin.login'));
     $this->actingAs(User::factory()->create(['is_admin' => false]))->get(route('admin.hosts.show', $host))->assertForbidden();
     $this->actingAs(admin(), 'operator')->get(route('admin.hosts.show', $host))->assertOk()->assertSee($host->name);
 });
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Provisioning/LiveProgressTest.php b/tests/Feature/Provisioning/LiveProgressTest.php
index 537881d..2c53ba4 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Provisioning/LiveProgressTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Provisioning/LiveProgressTest.php
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ it('shows real provisioning runs to admins', function () {
 });
 
 it('gates the provisioning console to admins', function () {
-    $this->get(route('admin.provisioning'))->assertRedirect('/login');
+    $this->get(route('admin.provisioning'))->assertRedirect(route('admin.login'));
     $this->actingAs(User::factory()->create())
         ->get(route('admin.provisioning'))->assertForbidden();
 });