How do I map a htm page to a URL

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Hi,

I want to change jforum so when a user visits the site or after login they are taken to a welcome screen. I also want the user to be taken to a goodbye screen when they log out.

I have changed urlPattern.properties and the redirects in userAction.java so the URL in the browser is correct but this still shows the forum list.

How do I change it so it shows forum_welcome.htm at login and forum_goodbye.htm at logout?

Is it to do with this.context.put() and moduleAction??

Thanks,

Liam
[originally posted on jforum.net by liam]

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You can use

JForum.setRedirect("/path/to/redirect/to") 

or, if you're using the latest cvs head / 2.1.5,

JForumExecutionContext.setRedirect("/path/to/redirect/to");

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Thanks for your reply.

If I use

JForum.setRedirect(this.request.getContextPath() + "/forums/welcome" + SystemGlobals.getValue(ConfigKeys.SERVLET_EXTENSION));

and add

forums.welcome.0 = 

in urlMappings.properties

where do i specify that /forums/welcome maps to forums_welcome.htm?

How does it know which page to display?

Ideally I would prefer it if forum_welcome.htm and forum_goodbye.htm were included in forum_base.htm to retain the header and footer of the site.

Thanks
[originally posted on jforum.net by liam]

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Well, if you want to use /forums/welcome.page, then you should create a method "welcome" in the ForumAction class, and class this.setTemplateName() to specify the template name to use.

Tempates are defined in the file templatesMapping.properties and related using the class TemplateKeys.java

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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Hi,

Can i not simply redirect back to

:8080/jforum/forums/list.page

after login and logout and set the context to

this.context.put("moduleAction", "forum_welcome.htm");

this.context.put("moduleAction", "forum_goodbye.htm");

Won't this then include the welcome and goodbye screens after the login/logout action is complete?

Liam


[originally posted on jforum.net by liam]

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If you're using version 2.1.4, then yes.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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I'm using 2.1.4 but that didn't seem to work earlier - i will have another look and get back to you - thanks.
[originally posted on jforum.net by liam]

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Hi,

Still having problems.

To make life easier can we just look at logout for now.

I edited the logout method in UserAction.java and added the 2nd line below

JForum.setRedirect(this.request.getContextPath() + "/forums/list" + SystemGlobals.getValue(ConfigKeys.SERVLET_EXTENSION));
this.context.put("moduleAction", "forum_goodbye.htm");

I also printed out the moduleAction value in forum_base.htm to help me debug.

The moduleAction remains forum_list.htm even when logout is selected.

I don't know why

this.context.put("moduleAction", "forum_goodbye.htm");

isn't being passed back - any idea?
[originally posted on jforum.net by liam]

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If you use setRedirect, then does not make sense setting moduleAction.

Now, I don't remember much of the code of 2.1.4, since I changed it a lot already - but make sure that there isn't any method / code, after you call this.context.put("moduleAction".. ) that may be changing the value.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]