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The Login Page should not be the File Not Found page. #7

Closed patdunlavey closed 13 years ago

patdunlavey commented 13 years ago

Submitted by issue_tracker on Sat, 2010-10-02 10:09 Project: OUSA Website Component: Functionality Category: bug report Priority: normal Assigned: Unassigned Status: postponed Jump to:

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Description

Any (well, most) internal broken links will take site visitors to the login page, which makes it appear as if the page exists but the user is simply denied access. This is confusing for both visitors and administrators and should be changed. Comments

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Submitted by dan on Sat, 2010-10-02 19:25.

I found BD's old "Sorry..." page and linked it back up. I recall Janet not liking the baseplate - perhaps that's why they took it down? In any case, the "Sorry" page is better than a Log In page. What's weird is that the Twitter News and Sponsors blocks don't show up on the page - there's just blank space on the right. Still better than before though.

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Submitted by lcarr on Sun, 2010-10-03 17:49. Assigned to: Anonymous » dan Status: active » postponed

Dan came up with a temporary fix that's better than the log in page.

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Submitted by dan on Sat, 2010-10-09 10:52. Assigned to: dan » Anonymous

ousaweb commented 13 years ago

File not found is no longer the log in page, but the 404 page could be much better, with instructions on how to go about finding what you're looking for, a la IOF's new 404-type page... http://orienteering.org/iof2006/News/Handbook-for-WRE-Event-Advisers (this shows what appears when looking for something with the old website address).

Breaking had put up a page that included an image with a sighting compass!

patdunlavey commented 13 years ago

This is set from the admin/settings/error-reporting page. I added a page at /file-not-found.