I have my YAF set up so that guests have read-only access to all forums. But if a guest, for example, clicks on a user's name hyperlink in a post, they are redirected to YAF's login page (default.aspx?g=login...). I would like them to go to MY login page (~/Login.aspx) for the sake of consistency. Again, the YAF login page functions just fine, but I'd like my login page to be used at all times.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

and you'd need to modify all elements.

If you want to help the project, you could really assist by doing the following:

1. Create a method in YAF.Classes.Utils/BuildLink.cs called "RedirectLogin()"

2. Add the basic login code -- of course, you can modify for your source.

3. Change all redirects to call the "RedirectLogin" function instead of this code:

YafBuildLink.Redirect( ForumPages.login, "ReturnUrl={0}", General.GetSafeRawUrl() );

Interested? Otherwise, you are basically doing that much modifying but the next release you'd have to do the same thing :)

If I were to code this for the main source, where would you want the login page URL to be configured from?

For my purposes, the cleanest solution would be to have YafBuildLink.RedirectLogin() call System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.RedirectToLoginPage(). In my ASP.NET application, my logn page URL is configured in web.config under the //system.web/authentication(mode='Forms') node.

This is how I'd want it to work, but certainly this is too specific of an implementation for the YAF source?

Here is my actual rewrite:

 <rewrite url="^~/forum/(.+?)?yaf_login?\.aspx\?returnurl\=(.+)$" to="~/login/Default.aspx?ReturnURL=$2" processing="stop" />

If you dont have your login in a folder, like I do, you will have to alter that....

If I am correct in reading your post, your line would read like this:

 <rewrite url="^~/forum/(.+?)?yaf_login?\.aspx\?returnurl\=(.+)$" to="~/login.aspx?ReturnURL=$2" processing="stop" />

just make sure that your authentication mode also points to your login page...

<authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms name=".YAFNET_Authentication" protection="All" timeout="43200" loginUrl="~/login/default.aspx" cookieless="UseCookies" />
    </authentication>

Works like a charm...