Moin,
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 14:58, Rob Church wrote:
On 25/04/06, Christiaan Briggs christiaan@yurkycross.co.uk wrote:
On our setup users are required to login to see anything other than the Main Page. If a user clicks on a link from the Main Page and they're not logged in they're prompted to login, after which they are taken back to the Main Page.
Is there any way to configure MediaWiki to make it forward the user to the page they clicked on before being prompted to login, instead of the Main Page?
The user should be returned to the page from which the login link was clicked, assuming the use of the standard login link; a "returnto" argument is added to the request string which is then used to dictate the location of the redirect.
This is a known bug, it doesn't work in 1.5.x or 1.6.x.
If you click a red link, it says you need to login. The link on _that_ page does not forward the page from where you came, so logging in via it will return you to the main page (this has frustrated my users to no end).
However, when you are presented with the login page, clicking on the "Log in" on the upper right corner does preserver the "returnto".
Go and try it on any wiki, logout, press edit, then click on the word "login" on the page that apears. On my wiki it leads from:
http://bloodgate.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit
to:
http://bloodgate.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin
Upper right corner instead goes to:
http://bloodgate.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Mai...
This is very frustrating, even if you know it, since your instinct is to click on the link that appears in front of you.
Best wishes,
Tels