Allow landing page to be customized

[francis+public@…]

It would be nice if it were possible to choose which page is loaded on initial entry to trac.

I have a trac installation which I'd prefer unauthenticated users not to be able to see. Doing this via HTTP authentication leads to all the logout issues discussed in ticket #791. Instead, I would like to simply remove all view privileges for the unauthenticated user. Unfortunately, this results in an error as trac tries to load the Wiki start page.

Customizing the location of the landing page would make it possible for a login page (probably from the account manager plugin) to be loaded as trac's initial page avoiding the error message on entry to trac and displaying the only page likely to be useful to the user.

[Remy Blank]

Have you tried using the [trac] default_handler option in TracIni? I'm not sure if it will work, but you could try setting it to LoginModule to make the login page the default.

[francis]

Nice suggestion, I completely missed that option. Unfortunately, it seems that it doesn't work. Instead, the browser gets into some sort of redirection loop.

[Remy Blank]

Replying to francis:

Instead, the browser gets into some sort of redirection loop.

Yes, that's what I feared. At this point, I'm not sure if this should be an enhancement request for ​th:AccountManagerPlugin, or for Trac core (which doesn't have a login page).

[anonymous]

It took a lot of searching, but I finally found this: ​th:PermRedirectPlugin. This seems to solve all my issues so I guess this ticket can be closed.

[Remy Blank]

Ok, thanks for the feedback.