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The site I’m working on right now requires users to be logged in before they can access the main site. There’s a template group of login templates, the “index” of which is the home page of the site. If users are already logged in, they are redirected to the main site:

{if logged_in}
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url={path=home/index}"/>
{/if}

Similarly, if users are not logged in, they are redirected to the login pages:

{if logged_out}
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url={path=site_index}"/>
{/if}

However, with this rather ugly method there is a delay, such that the original page is displayed briefly before the redirect kicks in.

Is there a better method I can use to achieve the same effect? Does EE have a native redirect function I can put in templates that will work more smoothly and avoid the brief display of the initial page?

Why redirect? Put the code in that template, and use template Access to disallow non logged in users from viewing it.

Sorry, put which bit of code in which template? At the moment, the {logged_in} code is present in the login pages (redirecting to the main site) and the {logged_out} code is in the main site pages (redirecting to the login pages).

And you mean template access in the template preferences? So I’d stop Guests from seeing all the templates except the login templates and set a page to be displayed when unauthorized users try to access one of the main site templates?

UPDATE: Actually, I’ve got this sorted, using the template access method you recommended. Thanks!

Glad to see Lisa helped you sort it all out 😊