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Joomla! version: Joomla! 2.5.9 Stable [ Ember ] 4-February-2013 14:00 GMT
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Hello,

I´m working on a dev site, which is offline for the general use (I´m using offline.php to show a 'Under Construction' page).

As the client don´t want the User and password fields to be shown to the general public, I created an index.htm file in the root of the site, so the htm is served if a user access the site, but my clients may 'see' the login form by appending 'index.php'.

This was working great, but when I used htaccess maker, it stoped working. By changing the 'Force index.php parsing' I may force using always .htm or .php, but not both.

Is there a way to acomplish this, or the only way would be disabling the htaccess AT created temporarily?

Thanks,

Roger.

Hello Nicholas,

thank you very much for your quick response. Please let me explain what I meant by 'both'.

Let´s say we have the site example.com, under which root we´ve created one index.htm file and one index.php file.

The index.htm file contains an 'under construction' page without the login form, and index.php is the regular one, with the login form for administrators.

So, if a user goes to example.com, the file .htm is served, but if our client needs to login to the site, they can login going to example.com/index.php.

Now, when 'Force index.php parsing' is ON, the .htm file is never served (as it should, it is the purpose of that option).

However, when 'Force index.php parsing' is OFF, going to example.com gives you the .htm file, but when going to example.com/index.php you are redirected to example.com, so there´s no way of reaching the login form.

We have this 'index.htm/php system' in two other sites and it´s working ok. They have also AT installed, so I guess the main difference is that the option 'Generate htaccess' had not been used in them yet.

We´ve already used 'Generate htaccess' in example.com, and I guess that if we revert htaccess to the original one that comes with Joomla we we´ll get the behaviour we need.

So rewording the original question, is there a way of achieving the desired behaviour without reverting to the original htaccess provided with Joomla?

Thanks!
Roger.

Hello Nicholas!

Thanks, that was the problem. I´ve indeed read the documentation a couple of times, it´s just that I didn´t make the conexion one option afected the other. ; )

Regards,

Roger.