Experience Definition question

New to 6 so try to sort my thoughts, we need to have a custom login/logout page and land the logged in user in a specific community.
1. How do I get the link to the customized login page (I need the link of login page for a reason, don't want the community link and any redirect).
2. Is this the right thing to do: Define an ED that has the community as home page and define a guest user that has the customized login/logout page.
3. What is the best way to define the ED rule? I don't want other user in our current portal to get affected.
Thanks!

I will try to provide answers in reverse order.
3. What is the best way to define the ED rule? I don't >want other user in our current portal to get affected.It depends. If you want to provide different ED's even for different guest users (for example, you want to have different look and feel for login screens) then the <only?> way to do it is to specify ED that depends on different URL.
The simplest way to check how does it work is to use portal host name for URL1 and, say, IP address (the same host) for URL 2.
So you can have different look and feel for different URL's and unsecured areas (guests).
You can even setup using SSO for ED1 and reqular AWS for ED2.
For authenticated users you can use much more different rules, like groups, administrative folders and so on.
2. Is this the right thing to do: Define an ED that has >the community as home page and define a guest user that >has the customized login/logout page.Yes, you can setup community and home page over there and use login portlet (provided by aqualogic or your own).
There is on trick here. You will need to setup "GuestRedirectToLogin" variable in portalconfig.xml file to "1". It's "0" by default an you will see standart portal login page (and you don't want this, because you need your community home page).
1. How do I get the link to the customized login page (I
need the link of login page for a reason, don't want the
community link and any redirect).I am not sure what do you exactly mean saying "customizid login page"?
You have community, there is login page over there that unsecured. This page is a community page, so this is aqualogic object. This page may be customized like any other page (layout,CSS). This page may also have LOGIN portlet that you are responsible to write (for example, by using tags) and by customizing one. There is example to do it here:
http://www.plumtreeg6.com/category/customizing-ui/
Edited by Bryazgin at 07/30/2007 4:42 PM

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