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Sign-In Page as the Index page? [Solved] | Forum

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1 Chope
1 Chope Nov 4 '13

Hello,

Please anybody here got an idea? I've been trying to make the sign in page http://oxwall.com/sign-in page be the index page.

Just the index page will be the sign in form just like sign in page.

I tried to add it using the add page/menu item and move it as the first page but if you point the default page of the website -http:website.com, it will not work, only http://website.com/sign-in will work.

Help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

The Forum post is edited by ross Nov 19 '13
ross Team
ross Nov 4 '13
Chope, 

the only way you can do that is via html redirect: 

1. you indicate page title and menu title as "sign-in"

2. make it visible for "guests"

3. make your page local, not external

3. in the page content you indicate this: 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/sign-in" />


otherwise this can be done as a modification only

1 Chope
1 Chope Nov 5 '13
Thanks.
The Forum post is edited by 1 Chope Nov 7 '13
ross Team
ross Nov 11 '13
No problem
ross Team
ross Nov 14 '13
Chope, also you can do this in the Admin Panel/Privacy and Permissions/Global Privacy

Guest can view the site - set to "No" and Guests will be shown sign-in page on every page of your website as well as on index page

Kostia
Kostia Jun 26 '14
hy, could you help me.. i have some questions.


* if i make thiese changes - Panel/Privacy and Permissions/Global Privacy  ( guests off) so google wont be able to find my site? Seo doest work as i understood?


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1. you indicate page title and menu title as "sign-in"    ( how to do it?)

2. make it visible for "guests"   ( how to do it?) 

3. make your page local, not external  ( how to do it?)

3. in the page content you indicate this:  ( how to do it?)  

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/sign-in" />


If i make thiese changes will it be SEO friendly? WIll my video, group pages... will be reach in google ?


Thanks.

ross Team
ross Jun 26 '14
If you will not make your site visible for guests it won't be indexed by google


if you do such a redirect google does not like that as well, but in this case your other pages will be indexed by google. 

The Forum post is edited by ross Jun 26 '14
Kostia
Kostia Jun 27 '14
but i really dont understood how make thiese changes:


1. you indicate page title and menu title as "sign-in"

2. make it visible for "guests"

3. make your page local, not external

3. in the page content you indicate this: 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/sign-in" />

ross Team
ross Jun 27 '14
Go to pages and menus section in the admin panel and add new page
Wilson
Wilson Jun 27 '14

Quote from Kostia but i really dont understood how make thiese changes:


1. you indicate page title and menu title as "sign-in"

2. make it visible for "guests"

3. make your page local, not external

3. in the page content you indicate this: 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/sign-in" />

Kostia,

You really need to explore the “ADMIN” dashboard area of your site. Go over every link you see in the admin area, it holds a lot of answers your asking. Study the script, go over all of it, if you see a link, click onto it and READ what its telling you what options you have.

here’s a bit of help:

go to your “admin dashboard” click onto “Pages & Menu” there you should see “Main Menu”, "Bottom Menu", "Hidden Pages", "Legend" right?

In the “Main Menu” area you will see a link called “Main”, point your mouse and hover over that link for a second…you see that? An “edit” link appears..so click onto that link! Now you should see “Menu Name” and a field next to it that has the word “MAIN” in it right? (that’s where you would change the “TILTIE” of the link) Now right below that you should see “Visible For” and two (2) boxes that should be both checked? The first one should say “GUEST” and the other should say “Registered Members"..it dose  right?

Ok you see how things are working here? There are  a lot of things in this script that needs your attention and the only way for you to know how things work is to explore the script, you are the ADMIN!
If you uncheck the “Guest” box, only “Registered Members” will be able to see that link called “Main” and so on and so on!

Play around with script, make a test site just to do things with, add modification you find here, add FREE pluins and themes Oxwall offers…You are the ADMIN, know what your script can do for your projects. You’ll find that this FREE script can be used for many things and is very powerful.

I can’t stress it enough…READ AND EXSLPOR the script!

Wilson
The Forum post is edited by Wilson Jun 27 '14
ross Team
ross Jul 3 '14
Kris, please remove your post, duplicating is not good idea. 
Kris Corp
Kris Corp Jul 3 '14
Ross i would like my issue resolved by you or one of the other team members. Oxwall team seems to like to move posts alot but little support. I placed the other method in htaccess and it didnt work for me. I must be doing something wrong. Im using 1.6.
The Forum post is edited by Kris Corp Jul 3 '14
ross Team
ross Jul 3 '14
I already noted either this method or custom code modification. We move posts which do not belong to the sections, because some members are not even willing to familiarize themselves with the rules of the forum


You said you placed your post in the custom code modification, wait for the reply. 

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