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#41552 You don't have permission to access this. Please contact a website administrator if this is incorrect.

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Joomla! version

5.2.2

PHP version

8.4

Admin Tools version

7.6.2

Latest post by jweelden on Monday, 03 February 2025 02:55 CST

Sunday, 02 February 2025 13:59 CST

jweelden

Good evening,

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I hope you can at least point me in the right direction.

I have a website where part of the content is only accessible to registered members. If someone is not logged in and tries to open a restricted page, they see Joomla's default message in red text:

"You don't have permission to access this. Please contact a website administrator if this is incorrect."

However, I would like a specific page to be displayed instead when users attempt to access content that is restricted to registered members.

Is there any way to achieve this using? I.E. .htaccess

best regards

John

Monday, 03 February 2025 01:54 CST

nicholas

Using the .htaccess won't help you here. You are talking about access control and error pages at the web application, not at the web server, level.

When an error occurs in Joomla it shows your template's error.php page. If that is not found, it displays the templates/system/error.php page instead.

Some third party templates and template frameworks do have features which allow you to display custom articles or modules in the error page. If you have such a template or template framework then what you want is very easy to do.

Otherwise, you'd have to override your template's error.php page – like we have. Try accessing akeeba.com/404-example and you'll see what I mean. It's doable, but it's more finicky. You also need to remember that the error page is shown for all errors, not just access denied.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Monday, 03 February 2025 02:55 CST

jweelden

Thank you very much Nicolas. Will look at the error page.