I currently have three blogs. Whenever I logout of any one of the blogs I am redirected to the default blog.  Can I change this so that I am redirected to my website home page which is outside of the ee? Thanks.

It is written into the scripts that logging out sends a user to the site url for the index page of the ExpressionEngine site.  Right now, the only way to change that is by modifying the member_logout function in mod.member.php.

I modified the function and it is working as I want.  It looks like the ‘site_url’ is reference frequently and seems like I’ll be ending up at the site url in situations that are inappropriate for my website.

A more general question… I’ve been viewing ee as a blog tool and the blog is only a small part of my website. I’ve been attempting to reach into ee to pull out the content I need for my website homepage. I’m wondering if I should treat ee as more of a content management system and just move my home page into ee and make it my site_url. Seems like it may work better that way and I don’t have to make so many hacks. Do you agree? 

Unless you can think of a good reason not to move your homepage into EE, then I would suggest you move it into the program.  Nevin is using ExpressionEngine for a great part of pMachine Hosting’s site (and he has more planned), and there is not a single blog anywhere on the site.  Many other people are doing the same.

I want the member to return to the page that they logged out from, but in a logged out state. . .

I found this:  ‘redirect’ => $PREFS->ini(‘site_url’), , but I’m not sure what to replace the “site_url” with. . .

I’m glad you posted this. . . I have had the same question.

Does anyone know how to change the logout redirect?  I want my users to return to the page they logged out from.

Try replacing $PREFS->ini(‘site_url’); with this:

$FNS->form_backtrack(‘2’);

Paul, thanks for that hack.  I didn’t get a chance to try it because I stumbled on to something else that worked for what I wanted to do. . . so for the sake of anyone else that is in the same boat, here is what I did:

I had two templates:

1)  www.personalsite.com
2)  www.personalsite.com/work

When someone logged off from site #2, they were directed to site #1.  Why? Because the site url is defined as www.personalsite.com.

The solution was to follow the directions here to set-up site #2 as a subdomain.  This gives you an opportunity to re-define the site url in the path.php file—in my case, www.personalsite.com/work. 

So now if a member logs out of site #2, they are redirected to site #2.

Paul...Thanks for the tip.
I changed it per your post…any ramifications we need to be aware of?
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FYI…In the file it ends with a comma (,) rather then a semi-colon (;) and to make it refresh/redirect to the very same page they left, it had to be (1) instead of (2). At least for me

There are no ramifications that I can think of, and both of your fixes sound right.

Paul...Super!

OK, so this is an old thread, but ... I am now in the position that I’d also want/need to change the logout on a per weblog basis. If there is a feature request for this, I’d like to second it. If there’s not, I’d be happy to make one.

For the time being, a hack would do. Looks like the member_logout function changed a bit since that thread?

My question is: How can I have users directed to an URL different from the site url after they logut? Any per-weblog URL (trackback URL, eg.) would be fine.

I am running 1.4.1 and the latest build.

No takers? I’ll make it a feature request then.