How do I move my "login" function off the navbar to its own page?

[len backus]

My goal is to clean up the look of my site.

I tried this as follows. I copied the form code and placed it into a separate page that I linked to from the navbar. It looked good but when I input my name and pass and hit enter it gave me a 404 error.

<!-- login form -->
<form action="login.php?do=login" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password, vb_login_md5password, vb_login_md5password_utf, $show[nopasswordempty])">
<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
<tr>
<td class="smallfont"><label for="navbar_username">$vbphrase[username]</label></td>
<td><input type="text" class="bginput" style="font-size: 11px" name="vb_login_username" id="navbar_username" size="10" accesskey="u" tabindex="101" value="$vbphrase[username]" onfocus="if (this.value == '$vbphrase[username]') this.value = '';" /></td>
<td class="smallfont" colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap"><label for="cb_cookieuser_navbar"><input type="checkbox" name="cookieuser" value="1" tabindex="103" id="cb_cookieuser_navbar" accesskey="c" />$vbphrase[remember_me]</label></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="smallfont"><label for="navbar_password">$vbphrase[password]</label></td>
<td><input type="password" class="bginput" style="font-size: 11px" name="vb_login_password" id="navbar_password" size="10" tabindex="102" /></td>
<td><input type="submit" class="button" value="$vbphrase[log_in]" tabindex="104" title="$vbphrase[enter_username_to_login_or_register]" accesskey="s" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />
<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" />
<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password_utf" />
</form>
<!-- / login form -->

[SEOvB]

You need to make sure your path to login.php is correct.

<form action="/YOURFORUMS/login.php?do=login" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password, vb_login_md5password, vb_login_md5password_utf, $show[nopasswordempty])">

[len backus]

Got it, thanks much.

[SEOvB]

Originally Posted by len backus

Thanks, is YOURFORUMS the entire http path or something else? And why would I have to change what was working in the Navbar?

you can either use a relative path ex: /forum/login.php or the entire path either way wont matter, http://yoursite.com/forum/login.php

You have to change it because you are getting a 404 error. Which means that your 404 page (or whatever page your displaying this on) is outside of the forum root folder.

[len backus]

FRDS, it worked perfectly. But...I have this on a separate page. When I log in, it doesn't redirect me to the forum home page where I initially clicked on the "log in" link.

I wonder how I can get the redirect to work so I and my members don't have to click on Forum Home again??

[SEOvB]

Originally Posted by len backus

FRDS, it worked perfectly. But...I have this on a separate page. When I log in, it doesn't redirect me to the forum home page where I initially clicked on the "log in" link.

I wonder how I can get the redirect to work so I and my members don't have to click on Forum Home again??

I think the only way to do that would be to take make a plugin at the login redirect location to redirect users to your forum home. But then I think it'd break the login process else where, how it takes you the thread you were viewing when you logged in.