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    • Upgrading from 14.0 to 14.2 changes the behaviour of login

    Posted by tehonu posts: 27 Indonesia

    Hi:

    I have a TW 14.0 and doing a test to upgrade to 14.2 found that the homepage behaves differently and does not show the login/password dialog any more.

    On the TW14.0

    • Setup as Intranet. Anonymous users have no permissions
    • Tiki feature as homepage : articles
    • Ticked: On permission denied, display login module (for Anonymous)


    so, when a users shows up to the homepage it has access denied (as it's still anonymous) and the homepage is /tiki-view_articles.php anf looks like this before logging in:

    Homepage In TW14
    when the user logs in she can read the articles. Perfect!

    When I upgrade to 14.2 the same homepage /tiki-view_articles.php shows an information box "No articles Yet", but no login/password dialog as:

    Homepage In TW142

    We still want the Anonymous visitors completely out, and want to maintain the behaviour of 14.0 whenre a dialog for Username / password was shown to user. (besides the login messages on the right upper corner, but that's not very user-friendly).

    How to maintain this functionality when upgrading to 14.2?

    many thanks,
    pak

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    Posted by Torsten Fabricius posts: 1563 Germany

    did anything change in tiki-admin.php/page=general or tiki-admin.php/page=login?

    It looks like an unticked preference, where an upgrade should not untick preferences without clear admin consent.

    Please check the login prefs

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    Posted by tehonu posts: 27 Indonesia

    Hi Torsten:

    Thanks for the hint, but as far as I can see settings are the exactly same settings.

    In both cases (14.0 and 14.2) the home page is tiki-view_articles.php as expected. looks like it's just a different way of handling the "permission denied":

    • In 14.0 shows a warning and then I gues it gets redirected to login thanks to "On permission denied, display login module (for Anonymous) "
    • In 14.2 just shows an Information "No artciles yet", so it does not trigger the redirection to login page.


    So I guess it's a different way of handling the permission denied between versions, but no clue if I'm on the right path.

    Found a system to make it work but does not seem very elegant:
    in tiki-admin.php?page=general

    • Use group homepages ticked
    • Use custom homepage ticked
    • Homepage URL = tiki-login.php
    • Use group homepages ticked

    And in Admin groups, set tiki-view_articles.php as homepage for registered.

    Would like to get a cleaner somution, as the one in 14.0 that was straight forward.

    Thanks,
    Pak

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    Posted by gezza posts: 496

    hello

    I think it was changed on purpose by this commit: https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/55802

    you can read the reasoning on that page

    i dont really have an opinion on this, just letting you know :-)

    cheers,
    gezza

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    Posted by tehonu posts: 27 Indonesia

    Thanks Gezza!

    All clear then. will use the solution posted previously.

    pak.

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