Template access, redirect to internal page

[Frank Vèssia]

Every time i set access to templates, 90% of the time a page is protected I set also "Redirect to another URL". Well could be useful to have a select and choose internal page for this redirection because I usually write something like "/login/", which is enough, but I was thinking, if a day I want to change my login url? I have to edit all the access rules for my templates...

[Martijn Geerts]

You can use your config for it.

$config->login_url = '/what-you-want/';

Then from elsewhere just call:  $config->login_url or wire('config')->login_url

[Frank Vèssia]

Yes but this will change also the admin login...when my users can't access to a particular page they have to login from my custom login page, not PW login page.

[Martijn Geerts]

Can be that I don't understand what you want but the admin login is called by ID: $config->loginPageID

[Macrura]

you can make up your own config vars, like

$config->my_special_frontend_login_url = '/login-here/';

i think that is what martijn was implying?

[Frank Vèssia]

If I use the $config I have to check manually each page and redirect my users, I was talking about the template "access" panel when you can write a custom page url when a user has no access.

[Macrura]

oh right - now i get it!

so that panel lets you put in a custom url, and you're thinking that since it's being stored as a page path, that the concern is what if you change the page path;

one idea might be the page paths history module, which would automatically handle that redirect;

another idea might be to actually enter the page id in that field like /?id=1024/ and then use a module to check for urls that are page ID and rewrite them to the current url..

[Frank Vèssia]

Yes, but i think a simple select with the page tree it's easier

[Macrura]

right...i guess i would vote for that, unless there is some good reason not to, perhaps there needs to be a way to have a made up url there also (one that is using segments or get vars)