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Major bad! I set a setting, some where, that redirected a guest account to a splash page. I now need to remove it ASAP. Now I can’t find that setting. How do I set a group landing page?

What version and build are you using? Do you’ve got a link?

Build:  20100121
http://goshopstar.com

I would be more than happy to IM you the user/pass.

Page is blank for me, is that on purpose? That said, check permissions for your main template as well as for the “Guest” member group.

What we did is - any person that is not logged in - aka guest - is redirected to a specific page. The site is online, but guests specifically are redirected. Essentially the site is online but redirecting non logged in users.

Originally this was located in the template system as “splash/index”. I deleted this template thinking EE would default back to the normal homepage, but it isn’t. I tried to rebuild the template, but it is the blank page. I’ve looked through the entire settings system. I’ve even scanned the database looking for a setting. I didn’t use {logged_out} for the redirect either.

What we did is - any person that is not logged in - aka guest - is redirected to a specific page.

Yes, but how? Are you simply denying access to the main template for the “Guest” group? There is a couple of possible approaches.

That is what I am trying to figure out is how we did it. I just downloaded the entire database via phpMyAdmin and did a straight-up search for the text “splash”. Nothing. If the template system is stored in the DB, then I would think that it would be somewhere.

As I’ve said, the most obvious way would be to restrict access to your templates(s) to logged-in members, and redirect others to a different template. You might want to check template permissions.

Thank you so much. I was dropped into this project at the very tail end with never having worked with ExpressionEngine. This is all still new to me. Template permissions. That was it.

I’ve added a few lines of php code to the index. If the user is not within the accepted IP range, they are sent to a splash page.

So, just to make sure, does the solve your issue? You’re good?

Spoke too soon. Now I don’t get anything, not even a website - even after I revert the index page back to an archived version. If I log into the back-end, go to the homepage, it is there. If I log-out and restart my browser, the site is not there. What happens if you go to http://goshopstar.com ? Is there an error page or a blank page?

It is a template permissions thing. I just changed our template index permission to deny guests and redirect them to another page. I’m now not sure what to change to let guests back into the site. As far as I know, the default index theme page is the only page that restricts guests.

Right now I’m getting a blank page on that link. If you want guests to be able to view the homepage, you’ll need to allow the Guests group to view the index template group.

You might also find the redirect variable useful in your templates. Does that help?

I just set every template to allow guest access. Actually every group was set to be able to access the site. I am so baffled. Is there a database table that I can look at that may give me an idea of what I am looking at? If I could look at the flags in DB format, that would be great.