Hi Vince,

let me address those issues one by one.

(1) the "forgot password" & "forgot username" links are opening in the "HomePage" template rather than the "Insidecontent" template

This is because of a fundamental problem in Joomla - if no Itemid is specified in a URL, the page gets treated as if it was the frontpage, as far as assigning modules and templates is concerned.

That's why MetaTemplate Pro also has a "page type" selector, which is a lot more specific. So I set up my test by selecting "frontpage (blogstyle)" from the page type, instead of selecting "Home" from the menu list.

If you're using the standard "frontpage" component on your site, I'd suggest doing the same. If however you're using a different type of front page (e.g. an article view) then you'd do it slightly differently - ask if you want an explanation for that.

(2) "Create new account" goes to the right template
- this is because it includes an Itemid in the URL, so Joomla picks this up and knows that you are not on the front page.

(3) Even when you add a rule to check for the Virtuemart component, and tell it to use the "Insidecontent" template, it still doesn't change the template for the Forgot Password links
- that's because these links are not actually to pages that are part of Virtuemart. They are links to the com_user component   So if you need to target these, select "com_user" from the component list. However, hopefully you won't need to do this if you get (1) working properly.

(4) "it makes no difference whether I have or have not selected any menu items from "inside" it redirects regardless to the correct page even though homepage is set as default"
- I'm not 100% sure what you mean here.
- If you mean that you are trying to set a new "default" page using the "Site Default Menu Item" dropdown in the SUCCEED/FAIL actions, then you're probably using them for the wrong thing [and there's a bit of a bug with them which is fixed in the upcoming release]. See documentation for this feature on this page.
- If you're trying to do a redirect using the "redirect page..." selector, then... why?

Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Stephen

Hi Jimmy,

You say that you want the page to change to Itemid 1 instead of Itemid 27 when they log in. This seems to be the first problem to start with. Unfortunately the VM login module doesn't give you the option to redirect to another page on login like the standard Joomla login module does.

This could be fixed reasonably easily with some modifications to the VM module to support setting the page (Itemid) that it should redirect to after login. There's code in the standard login module that can be used almost exactly to achieve this.

If this could be fixed, would it solve everything else for you?

Cheers,
Stephen

Hi Jimmy,

you say "I would like it to send them to the about page (same menu item as when they first successfully login)".

If the home page link is to "/" (not /home or anything else like that) then that can be controlled with the Default Menu Item.
You stated above that you set the default menu item to the login page - that's why people are being sent there. (although I don't get how that's happening for logged in users... perhaps there's another rule activated?)

What I'd do is this:

- set up a rule like this:
In the PHP, use:

if (MM_LOGGED_IN) return true;

(with the default PHP return value set to false)

- in the SUCCEED action, select a template from the dropdown list if you need to. Set the Site Default Menu Item to the About page.
- in the FAIL action, select the piranhabay_login template from the dropdown list. Set the Site Default Menu Item to the login page.

I *think* this will do what you've asked for, and keeps the rule fairly simple.

Cheers,
Stephen