Using a custom login page for the portal

Question

Hi all,
I'm currently doing a migration from Plumtree 4.5WS to Plumtree 5.0.4. In the current 4.5WS portal, I'm catering to 3 different login mechanisms due to time-lags in migration of my users' workstations. The 3 mechanisms are:
1) Smart Card Reader on Windows 95 using TLS (uses a client side ActiveX)
2) Smart Card Reader on Windows XP using SSL (uses client side ActiveX)
3) Java PKI Card on Windows XP using SSL (uses server side scripting)
To cater to the above, we've made customisations to login.asp and dologin.asp and also added a few scripts of our own.
I now need to migrate these over to Plumtree 5.0 as well. I've thought of 2 ways to do this:
1) Doing a custom view replacement of the Login View. This however has limitations as I'm not sure how the codes for the above 3 mechanisms will come in, especially 3), which involves server side scripting.
2) Creating a custom login and exit page. This is probably a much more feasible solution in my case as it allows me to freely create my login pages and exit pages accordingly to cater for the above. However to do this, I need to be able to customize the Log In and Log Off links on the Portal Banner in order to point these to my own login and exit pages.
Any ideas what is the best (or correct) way to do this?
Thanks!
Weng Kong Lee

Answer 1

AFAIK only one login.jsp is called.
But you can include logic into that one JSP file.
If referer = portal.company.com THEN
else
This way you can create different look and feel for different virtual hosts.
Login portlets have the disadvantage that https is not supported
Ton