[pmwiki-users] suggestions for welcome page on read-protected site

Tegan Dowling tmdowling at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 12:24:42 CDT 2006


Never mind, I think.  Option 3 does work.  I thought I remembered seeing
something about that syntax, but I couldn't find it in the documentation.
Did I just overlook it?

On 4/3/06, Tegan Dowling <tmdowling at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The site I'm working on will be read-protected via password (not using
> user-authentication).  But the client would like something friendlier than
> the blank-page-and-password-prompt that's the default.
>
> I could make Main/HomePage into a (:noleft:)(:noright:) welcome page with
> a "Please Log In" link, BUT then anytime an already logged-in user of the
> site goes 'home', that's what they'll see.
>
> So:
>
> 1) do I try to customize the Site.AuthForm page?
> 2) can I redirect from HomePage to a welcome page, conditional on lacking
> read-authentication for the Main HomePage, somehow?
> 3) or turn that around, if there's a markup like
>        (:if ! auth read sometestpage:) welcometext (:if auth read
> sometestpage:) regular text ?
> 4) other suggestion?
>
>
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