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Old 03-02-2007, 03:26 PM
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I cannot seem to find anything relating to this topic in my searches, so I will post here.

What I would like is a forum that is entirely behind the scenes. I know you can customize whether guests may view content, but I want to take it a step further.

I would like a landing page at domain.com which will have, among other things, a login script. Using the username and password to login to the forums will take you to the forum index. I would like to have the one username/pass combination and not require a separate login at the forum index.

That said, it would require having a site that denies access to domain.com/forum to the same casual users.

I hope that makes sense.

Is this something that sounds feasible? Would it just require some custom programming or an excess of personal free time to learn it on my own?

Thank you kindly for your time in this matter.
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Old 03-02-2007, 04:24 PM
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<a href="http://vbadvanced.com" target="_blank">http://vbadvanced.com</a> ... pay yourself a visit to the most known portal for vBulletin...

your landing page can be anything, a simple empty page with the header/navbar, or an error page that ask the visitor to login for access...

remember that you can set a forum to be locked to visitors, so any guest would have to login/register to see a thing.
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Old 03-02-2007, 05:21 PM
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Thanks nexialys.

I guess I would look for my landing page to be essentially an error page requesting login.

That seems to meet my requirements perfectly. I never considered that.

I appreciate your help.
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Old 03-02-2007, 06:56 PM
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or if you wanted a more basic approach you could do a simple template edit with a conditional to see if somone is logged in or not, if not display an image and login box, if so display forums.
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