How to determine default first web OPAC page when using PDS

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20

Description:
How to automatically define that the default first web OPAC page when using PDS will be the login page?

When PDS is not used the default first page is $alephe_root/www_f_eng/login
When PDS is used the default first page is $alephe_root/www_f_eng/find-b

How can this be changed to the PDS login page?

Resolution:
This can be done by the fillowing:

1) Copy the file pds-login to pds-login-first.

2) In pds-login-first change the following line:
var url = '&server_pds?func=load-login&calling_system=aleph&institute=$0200&url=&pds_backlink?$0100';
to:
var url = '&server_pds?func=load-login&calling_system=aleph&institute=$0200&url=&pds_backlink?func=file&file_name=find-b';

3) In $alephe_root/www_server.conf , define:
setenv www_login "PDS-LOGIN-FIRST"

4) Restart the server.

Note: You can also define a different file name that you want to display after login. In any case, do not use variables as it will not work.