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Why menu items don't work the same! | Forum
Alexandru
Dec 15 '13
I faced such a issue when was trying to add a menu item: When I add a menu item through andmin panel PAGES&MENUS that refers to an internal page it works properly but when I add a menu item to an External URL and put it the first one in the list when I open the site I see the second menu opened instead of first one in list. Please help me to stand out what I make wrong, it is very important for me.Thanks in advance for your help.
Alexandru
Dec 16 '13
Thanks FoxTech for your reply, you understood my question 100% but is there any posibilities to meke this work properly (I think many Oxwallers would be happy to find solution for this issue! Personly I'll be very grateful for your help. Thanks in advance!
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P.S. My social network ob oxwall got PR 2 on first pagerank update and I think it has good chances to become a recognized social network basedcon Oxwall.
Alexandru
Dec 17 '13
Thank you FoxTechs for your reply! Unfortunately I have no posibility to employ such a developer for making these modifictions for me. I think that the information on how to ignore rulrs in menu"s items arangement will be very useful for many Oxwalers.NeverthelessNevertheless, thank you once agai, it made me understand what I make wrong.
Team Alia
Dec 18 '13
Alexandru, redirecting user to external website when they are trying to open YOUR site is pointless.
What you basically would like to do is to open another website instead of yours under your URL.
There are several ways to achieve this without using pages and menus.
Method #3 ( using .htaccess) given here: http://www.wikihow.com/Redirect-a-URL ; sounds good.
This method will open external page instead of your site, so you will need to make sure that the external site have a link back to YOUR site.
If you can explain why you need this feature, I might help you more.
What you basically would like to do is to open another website instead of yours under your URL.
There are several ways to achieve this without using pages and menus.
Method #3 ( using .htaccess) given here: http://www.wikihow.com/Redirect-a-URL ; sounds good.
This method will open external page instead of your site, so you will need to make sure that the external site have a link back to YOUR site.
If you can explain why you need this feature, I might help you more.
Alexandru
Dec 18 '13
Alexandru, redirecting user to external website when they are trying to open YOUR site is pointless.
What you basically would like to do is to open another website instead of yours under your URL.
There are several ways to achieve this without using pages and menus.
Method #3 ( using .htaccess) given here: http://www.wikihow.com/Redirect-a-URL ; sounds good.
This method will open external page instead of your site, so you will need to make sure that the external site have a link back to YOUR site.
If you can explain why you need this feature, I might help you more.
I don't wanna redirect to an external site, just I have my page http://mysite.com/sign-in, which I wanna make the first one (that will open the first one like in facebook when an ungeristred user will enter my site).I tried to close all the site for unregistred users but it afects my site because it doesn't allow google bots to crowl my site that's why I decided to open some pages for user's sight but to use mysite.com/sign-in as the first page.
Alexandru
Dec 18 '13
In short what I wanna do: I wanna make http://polyglothub.com/sign-in the first page that will open when my site (Polyglothub.com) will be accesed directly by introducing polyglothub.com in the search line. Maybe there should be any other posibilities to solve this issue, just I'm not too strong in coding.
The Forum post is edited by Alexandru Dec 18 '13
Team Alia
Dec 23 '13
Alexandru, I am sure that there are a lot of other better ways to do this. But here is easiest solution ( but not the best):
Create a new local page in admin panel>>pages&menus
1. page title and menu title: "sign-in"
2. visible for "guests"
3. in the page content add:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/sign-in" />
Move this new page to the first place in pages&menus.
How this works:
User opens your site>>system redirects to your new local page>> system reads that this page has a redirect>>system will redirect to /sign-in.
Create a new local page in admin panel>>pages&menus
1. page title and menu title: "sign-in"
2. visible for "guests"
3. in the page content add:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/sign-in" />
Move this new page to the first place in pages&menus.
How this works:
User opens your site>>system redirects to your new local page>> system reads that this page has a redirect>>system will redirect to /sign-in.
Alexandru
Dec 25 '13
Alexandru, I am sure that there are a lot of other better ways to do this. But here is easiest solution ( but not the best):
Create a new local page in admin panel>>pages&menus
1. page title and menu title: "sign-in"
2. visible for "guests"
3. in the page content add:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/sign-in" />
Move this new page to the first place in pages&menus.
How this works:
User opens your site>>system redirects to your new local page>> system reads that this page has a redirect>>system will redirect to /sign-in.
Thank you for suggestion, but it makes a redirection for wich google penalizes. Isn't there any ways to do the same without redirections?
Alexandru
Dec 25 '13
Yet, is it posible to make menu items that refer to an external page iqual to those that refer to an internal page (here should be the issue of privileges but I don't know where to look for).
